23 Bible Verses about Friendlessness

Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.

You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have 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 man that would acknowledge me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a horror to my acquaintance: they that did see me outside fled from me. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me. They that dwell in my house, and my maidservants, count me as a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.read more.
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth. My breath is repulsive to my wife, though I make supplication for the children of my own body. Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me. All my close friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved have turned against me.

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and hesitate not 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 mocking of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my friends watched for my fall, saying, Perhaps he will be deceived, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

And they all forsook him, and fled.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: 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, yea, is now come, that you shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

And he would gladly have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

The invalid 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 defense no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

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 you: 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 helper suitable 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 them that fear you, and of them that keep your precepts.

There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and feasted sumptuously every day: