Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

As the stream

Bible References

My brethren

Job 19:19
All of my best friends despise me,
and those I love have turned against me.
Psalm 38:11
My loved ones and friends stand back from my affliction,
and my relatives stand at a distance.
Psalm 41:9
Even my friend in whom I trusted,
one who ate my bread,
has raised his heel against me.
Psalm 55:12
Now it is not an enemy who insults me—
otherwise I could bear it;
it is not a foe who rises up against me—
otherwise I could hide from him.
Psalm 88:18
You have distanced loved one and neighbor from me;
darkness is my only friend.
Jeremiah 9:4
Everyone has to be on guard against his friend.
Don’t trust any brother,
for every brother will certainly deceive,
and every friend spread slander.
Jeremiah 30:14
All your lovers have forgotten you;
they no longer look for you,
for I have struck you as an enemy would,
with the discipline of someone cruel,
because of your enormous guilt
and your innumerable sins.
Micah 7:5
Do not rely on a friend;
don’t trust in a close companion.
Seal your mouth
from the woman who lies in your arms.
John 13:18
I’m not speaking about all of you; I know those I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: The one who eats My bread has raised his heel against Me.
John 16:32
Look: An hour is coming, and has come, when each of you will be scattered to his own home, and you will leave Me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

As the stream

Jeremiah 15:18
Why has my pain become unending,
my wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
You truly have become like a mirage to me—
water that is not reliable.
Jude 1:12
These are the ones who are like dangerous reefs at your love feasts. They feast with you, nurturing only themselves without fear. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead, pulled out by the roots;

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