Job 6:15

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

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“For the despairing man there should be kindness from his friend;
So that he does not abandon (turn away from) the fear of the Almighty.
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“My brothers have acted deceitfully like a brook,
Like the torrents of brooks that vanish,
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Which are dull and dirty because of ice,
And into which the snow melts and hides itself;

Job

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?

Psalm 38:11

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].

Job 19:19

“All the men of my council hate me;
Those I love have turned against me.

Psalm 55:12-14

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.

Jeremiah 9:4-5

“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.

Micah 7:5-6

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.

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;