'Friends' in the Bible

Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.