Psalm 69:20
Reproach and insults have broken my heart and I am so sick.
I looked for sympathy, but there was none,
And for comforters, but I found none.
Job 16:2
“I have heard many such things;
Wearisome and miserable comforters are you all.
Isaiah 63:5
“I looked, but there was no one to help,
And I was amazed and appalled that there was no one to uphold [truth and right].
So My own arm brought salvation to Me,
And My wrath sustained Me.
Psalm 142:4
Look to the right [the point of attack] and see;
For there is no one who has regard for me [to act in my favor].
Escape has failed me and I have nowhere to run;
No one cares about my life.
Mark 14:50
Then all of His disciples abandoned Him and fled.
Job 19:21-22
“Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has touched me.
Psalm 42:6
O my God, my soul is in despair within me [the burden more than I can bear];
Therefore I will [fervently] remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of [Mount] Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
Psalm 42:10
As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me,
While they say continually to me, “Where is your God?”
Psalm 123:4
Our soul is greatly filled
With the scoffing of those who are at ease,
And with the contempt of the proud [who disregard God’s law].
Matthew 26:37-38
And taking with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee [James and John], He began to be grieved and greatly distressed.
Matthew 26:56
Mark 14:37
And He came back and found them sleeping, and He said to Peter,
John 12:27
John 16:32
2 Timothy 4:16-17
At my first trial no one supported me [as an advocate] or stood with me, but they all deserted me. May it not be counted against them [by God].
Hebrews 11:36
and others experienced the trial of mocking and scourging [amid torture], and even chains and imprisonment.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Reproach
But there
Comforters
General references
Bible References
Reproach
As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me,
While they say continually to me, “Where is your God?”
Our soul is greatly filled
With the scoffing of those who are at ease,
And with the contempt of the proud [who disregard God’s law].
I am
O my God, my soul is in despair within me [the burden more than I can bear];
Therefore I will [fervently] remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of [Mount] Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
But there
Look to the right [the point of attack] and see;
For there is no one who has regard for me [to act in my favor].
Escape has failed me and I have nowhere to run;
No one cares about my life.
Comforters
“I have heard many such things;
Wearisome and miserable comforters are you all.
“Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has touched me.
General references
Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants [scorned, insulted, and disgraced];
How I bear in
When the wicked man comes [to the depth of evil], contempt [of all that is pure and good] also comes,
And with inner baseness (dishonor) comes outer shame (scorn).