Thematic Bible: Being Forsaken by friends


Thematic Bible



I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to my acquaintances: those that see me without flee from me. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I have become like a lost vessel.


Thou hast put away mine acquaintances far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them; I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.



Then his wife said unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Blaspheme God and die.

He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are verily estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. Those that dwell in my house and my maids have counted me for a stranger; I was an alien in their sight. read more.
I called my slave, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. My spirit came to be strange to my wife, although I intreated her for the sons of my own body. Even the young children despised me; as I arose, they spoke against me. All my intimate friends abhorred me; and those whom I loved are turned against me.




At my first answer no one stood with me, but all men forsook me: let it not be imputed unto them.