Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me. I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.


You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape; Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessAbandoning FriendsShutting DoorsFriends FailingPeople Being HatedBest Friendsshunning


For it is not an enemy who taunts me-- then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me-- then I could hide from him. But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend. We used to take sweet counsel together; within God's house we walked in the throng.


You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape; Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessAbandoning FriendsShutting DoorsFriends FailingPeople Being HatedBest Friendsshunning


Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know. They repay me evil for good; my soul is bereft. But I, when they were sick-- I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest. read more.
I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning. But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing; like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.

My companion stretched out his hand against his friends; he violated his covenant. His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.