23 Bible Verses about Friendlessness

You caused my friend and neighbor to shun me; and my acquaintances are confused. An instruction. By Ethan, the Ezrahite

You caused my acquaintances to shun me; you make me extremely abhorrent to them. Restrained, I am unable to go out.

I lie awake, yet I am like a bird isolated on a rooftop.

I look to my right and observe no one is concerned about me. There is nowhere I can go for refuge, and no one cares for me.

I have become an object of reproach to all my enemies, especially to my neighbors. I have become an object of fear to my friends, and whoever sees me outside runs away from me. Like a dead man, I am forgotten in their thoughts like broken pottery.

As for my friends and my neighbors, they stand aloof from my distress; even my close relatives stand at a distance.

"My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged; my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me. Those who live in my house and my maidservants, too! treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner.read more.
"I call to my servant, but he doesn't respond, even though I beg to him earnestly. My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad! Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me. My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me.

They abhor me they keep their distance from me; but they don't refrain from spitting at the sight of me.

I have heard the slander of many; it is like terror all around me, as they conspire together and plot to take my life.

Indeed, I hear many people whispering, "Terror on every side. Denounce him, let's denounce him!" All my close friends watch my steps and say, "Perhaps he will be deceived, and we can prevail against him and take vengeance on him."

"I've been very zealous for the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies," he replied. "The Israelis have abandoned your covenant, demolished your altars, executed your prophets with swords, and I that's right, just me! am the only one left. Now they're seeking my life, to get rid of me!"

Then all the disciples deserted Jesus and ran away.

"He was despised and rejected by others, and a man of sorrows, intimately familiar with suffering; and like one from whom people hide their faces; and we despised him and did not value him.

But all of this has happened so that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples deserted Jesus and ran away.

Listen, the time is coming, indeed it has already come, when you will be scattered, each of you to his own home, and you will leave me all by myself. Yet I'm not alone, because the Father is with me.

No one would give him anything, even though he would gladly have filled himself with the husks the pigs were eating.

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I don't have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I'm trying to get there, someone else steps down ahead of me."

At my first trial no one came to my defense. Everyone abandoned me. May it not be held against them!

because Demas, having fallen in love with this present world, has abandoned me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful in my ministry.

Later, the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make the woman to be an authority corresponding to him."

When David finished speaking with Saul, Jonathan became a close friend to David, and Jonathan loved him as himself.

I am united with all who fear you, and with everyone who keeps your precepts.

"Once there was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and live in great luxury every day.