Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
My brethren
As the stream
Bible References
My brethren
Job 19:19
“All the men of my council hate me;
Those I love have turned against me.
“All the men of my council hate me;
Those I love have turned against me.
Psalm 38:11
My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague;
And my neighbors stand far away.
My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague;
And my neighbors stand far away.
Psalm 41:9
Even my own close friend in whom I trusted,
Who ate my bread,
Has lifted up his heel against me [betraying me].
Even my own close friend in whom I trusted,
Who ate my bread,
Has lifted up his heel against me [betraying me].
Psalm 55:12
For it is not an enemy who taunts me—
Then I could bear it;
Nor is it one who has hated me who insolently exalts himself against me—
Then I could hide from him.
For it is not an enemy who taunts me—
Then I could bear it;
Nor is it one who has hated me who insolently exalts himself against me—
Then I could hide from him.
Psalm 88:18
Lover and friend You have placed far from me;
My familiar friends are in darkness.
Lover and friend You have placed far from me;
My familiar friends are in darkness.
Jeremiah 9:4
“Let everyone beware of his neighbor
And do not trust any brother.
For every brother is a supplanter [like Jacob, a deceiver, ready to grab his brother’s heel],
And every neighbor goes around as a slanderer.
“Let everyone beware of his neighbor
And do not trust any brother.
For every brother is a supplanter [like Jacob, a deceiver, ready to grab his brother’s heel],
And every neighbor goes around as a slanderer.
Jeremiah 30:14
‘All your lovers (allies) have forgotten you;
They do not seek and long for you.
For I have injured you with the wound of an enemy,
With the punishment of a cruel and merciless foe,
Because your guilt is great
And your sins are glaring and innumerable.
‘All your lovers (allies) have forgotten you;
They do not seek and long for you.
For I have injured you with the wound of an enemy,
With the punishment of a cruel and merciless foe,
Because your guilt is great
And your sins are glaring and innumerable.
Micah 7:5
Do not trust in a neighbor [because of the moral corruption in the land];
Do not have confidence in a friend.
Guard the doors of your mouth
From her who lies in your bosom.
Do not trust in a neighbor [because of the moral corruption in the land];
Do not have confidence in a friend.
Guard the doors of your mouth
From her who lies in your bosom.
John 13:18 I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but [this has happened] in order that the Scripture may be fulfilled: ‘He who eats My bread has raised up his heel against Me [as My enemy].’
John 16:32 Take careful notice: an hour is coming, and has arrived, when you will all be scattered, each to his own home, leaving Me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
As the stream
Jeremiah 15:18
Why has my pain been perpetual
And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?
Will you indeed be to me like a deceptive brook
With water that is unreliable?
Why has my pain been perpetual
And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?
Will you indeed be to me like a deceptive brook
With water that is unreliable?
Jude 1:12
These men are hidden reefs [elements of great danger to others] in your love feasts when they feast together with you without fear, looking after [only] themselves; [they are like] clouds without water, swept along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted and lifeless;