Thematic Bible: Being Forsaken by friends


Thematic Bible



By reason of all mine adversaries, have I become a reproach. Even to my neighbours, altogether, and a dread to mine acquaintance, - They who have seen me abroad, have fled from me: I have been forgotten, like one dead - out of mind, I have been as a missing vessel.


Thou hast far removed mine acquaintances from me, - Thou hast made me an abomination unto them, Shut up, and I cannot go forth! Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessAbandoning FriendsShutting DoorsFriends FailingPeople Being HatedBest Friendsshunning


Then said his wife unto him, Art thou still holding fast thine integrity? Curse God, and die! Verse ConceptsCurses, HumanBlasphemy, Examples OfBlameWivesBad Wives ExamplesHolding FastTemptressesCursing GodWife

My Brethren - from beside me, hath he moved far away, and, mine acquaintance, are wholly estranged from me; Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me; Ye guests of my house and my maidens, A stranger, have ye accounted me, An alien, have I become in their eyes; read more.
To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him; My breath, is strange to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my own mother; Even young children, despise me, I rise up, and they speak against me; All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;


In my first defence, no man, came in to help me, but, all, forsook me, - unto them, may it not be reckoned! - Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessBeing ForsakenDesertionLonelinessForsaking All OthersSelf DefenceReckoningPeople Abandoning PeopleMan DefendingSupport