Thematic Bible: Being Forsaken by friends


Thematic Bible



Because of all my adversaries I have become a disgrace, especially to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. [Those who] see me in the street flee from me. I have become forgotten like [one] dead, out of {mind}. I am like a destroyed vessel.


You have removed my acquaintances far from me. You have made me detestable to them. [I am] confined and cannot go out.



Then his wife said to him, "Are you still persisting in your blamelessness? {Curse} God and die."

"He has removed my kinsfolk from me, and my acquaintances have only turned aside from me. My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me. The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. read more.
I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I must {personally} plead with him. My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to {my own family}. Little boys also despise me; [when] I rise, then they talk against me. All {my intimate friends} abhor me, and these [whom] I have loved have turned against me.




At my first defense, no one came to my [aid], but [they] all deserted me; may it not be counted against them.