23 Bible Verses about Friendlessness

Thou hast put lover and friend far from me, and placed my acquaintances into darkness.

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.

I watch and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.

I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no one that would know me; I had no refuge; no one cared for my soul.

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.

My friends and my companions stand aloof from my sore, and my kinsmen stand afar off.

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.

They abhor me, they distance themselves from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.

For I have heard the slander of many; fear was on every side; while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

For I heard the murmuring of many, fear on every side, Report, and we will report it. All my friends watched to see if I would stumble. Peradventure he will deceive himself, they said, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

And he replied, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of the hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left, and they seek me to take my life.

And they all forsook him and fled.

He is despised and rejected among men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with weakness; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

But all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him and fled.

Behold, the hour comes and is now come, that ye shall be scattered, each one to his own, and shall leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

And he longed to fill his belly with the husks that the swine ate, but no one gave them unto him.

The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.

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

for Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with thee, for he is profitable to me for the ministry.

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

And it came to pass when he had finished speaking unto Saul that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

I am a companion of all those that fear thee and of those that keep thy precepts.

There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day;