'Afar' in the Bible

Why, Jehovah, standest thou afar off? Why hidest thou thyself in times of distress?

My lovers and mine associates stand aloof from my stroke; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Behold, I would flee afar off, I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah;

For Jehovah is high; but he looketh upon the lowly, and the proud he knoweth afar off.

Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off;