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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Job 19:19

All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loued, are turned against me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Friendship;   Thompson Chain Reference - Friendship-Friendlessness;   Inconstancy;   Job;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Leper;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All of my best friends despise me,and those I love have turned against me.
Hebrew Names Version
All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
King James Version
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
English Standard Version
All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
New Century Version
All my close friends hate me; even those I love have turned against me.
New English Translation
All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.
Amplified Bible
"All the men of my council hate me; Those I love have turned against me.
New American Standard Bible
"All my associates loathe me, And those I love have turned against me.
World English Bible
All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
All my secret friends abhorred me, & they whome I loued, are turned against me.
Legacy Standard Bible
All the men of my counsel abhor me,And those I love have turned against me.
Berean Standard Bible
All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
Contemporary English Version
My best friends and loved ones have turned from me.
Complete Jewish Bible
All my intimate friends abhor me, and those I loved have turned against me.
Darby Translation
All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Easy-to-Read Version
All my close friends hate me. Even my loved ones have turned against me.
George Lamsa Translation
All my counselors abhor me; even my friends have turned against me.
Good News Translation
My closest friends look at me with disgust; those I loved most have turned against me.
Lexham English Bible
All my intimate friends abhor me, and these whom I have loved have turned against me.
Literal Translation
All the men of my counsel detest me; even this one I loved has turned against me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
All soch as were my most familiers, abhorre me: and they whom I loued best, are turned agaynst me.
American Standard Version
All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.
Bible in Basic English
All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
All my intimate friends abhor me; and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All my most familiers abhorred me: and they whom I loued best, are turned against me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They that saw me abhorred me: the very persons whom I had loved, rose up against me.
English Revised Version
All my inward friends abhor me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei, that weren my counselouris sum tyme, hadden abhomynacioun of me; and he, whom Y louede moost, was aduersarie to me.
Update Bible Version
All my familiar friends are disgusted by me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.
Webster's Bible Translation
All my intimate friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
New King James Version
All my close friends abhor me, And those whom I love have turned against me.
New Living Translation
My close friends detest me. Those I loved have turned against me.
New Life Bible
All my friends hate me. Those I love have turned against me.
New Revised Standard
All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;
Douay-Rheims Bible
They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I loved most is turned against me.
Revised Standard Version
All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
Young's Literal Translation
Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"All my associates abhor me, And those I love have turned against me.

Contextual Overview

8 Hee hath fenced vp my way that I cannot passe; and hee hath set darkenesse in my pathes. 9 Hee hath stript me of my glory, and taken the crowne from my head. 10 He hath destroyed me on euery side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he remooued like a tree. 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and hee counteth me vnto him as one of his enemies. 12 His troupes come together, and raise vp their way against me, and encampe round about my tabernacle. 13 Hee hath put my brethren farre from me, and mine acquaintance are verely estranged from me. 14 My kinsefolke haue failed, and my familiar friends haue forgotten me. 15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maides count me for a stranger: I am an aliant in their sight. 16 I called my seruant, and he gaue me no answere: I intreated him with my mouth. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the childrens sake of mine owne body.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my inward friends: Heb. the men of my secret, Psalms 41:9, Psalms 55:12-14, Psalms 55:20

they whom: Job 6:14, Job 6:15, Psalms 109:4, Psalms 109:5, Luke 22:48

Reciprocal: Job 2:11 - friends Job 30:10 - abhor me Jeremiah 20:10 - All my familiars Matthew 10:21 - the children Luke 22:21 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 12:13
Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that it may be wel with me, for thy sake; and my soule shall liue, because of thee.
Genesis 19:1
And there came two Angels to Sodome at euen, and Lot sate in the gate of Sodome: and Lot seeing them, rose vp to meet them, and he bowed himselfe with his face toward the ground.
Genesis 19:7
And said, I pray you, brethren, doe not so wickedly.
Genesis 19:11
And they smote the men that were at the doore of the house, with blindnes, both small and great: so that they wearied themselues to finde the doore.
Genesis 19:14
And Lot went out, and spake vnto his sonnes in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get yee out of this place: for the LORD wil destroy this citie: but hee seemed as one that mocked, vnto his sonnes in law.
Genesis 19:16
And while he lingred, the men laid hold vpon his hand, and vpon the hand of his wife, and vpon the hand of his two daughters, the LORD being mercifull vnto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the citie.
Genesis 19:17
And it came to passe, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life, looke not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plaine: escape to the mountaine, lest thou bee consumed.
Genesis 19:19
Beholde now, thy seruant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed vnto me, in sauing my life, and I cannot escape to the mountaine, lest some euill take me, and I die.
Genesis 19:22
Haste thee, escape thither: for I cannot doe any thing till thou bee come thither: therefore the name of the citie was called Zoar.
Genesis 19:25
And he ouerthrew those cities, and all the plaine, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew vpon the ground.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All my inward friends abhorred me,.... Or "the men of my secret" m; who were so very familiar with him, that he imparted the secrets of his heart, and the most private affairs of life, unto them, placing so much confidence in them, and treating them as his bosom friends; for this is always reckoned a great instance of friendship,

Job 15:15; and yet their minds were set against him; their affections were alienated from him; they abhorred the sight of him, and declined all conversation with him, even all of them; not one showed respect unto him:

and they whom I loved; or "this whom I loved" n; this and that and the other particular friend, that he loved more than others: though all men are to be loved as the creatures of God, and as fellow creatures, and especially good men, even all the saints; yet there are some that engross a greater share of love than others, among natural and spiritual relations; as Joseph was more loved by his father than the rest of his children; and, even by our Lord, John was loved more than the other disciples: and so Job, he had some particular friends that he loved above others; and yet these not only turned away from him in the time of his adversity, and turned their backs on him, and would have nothing to say to him for his comfort, nor afford him any relief of any kind in his distress, but

are turned against men; were turned against him, and became his enemies; and, as David says of some that he had a love for, for my love, "they are my adversaries", Psalms 109:4.

m מתי סודי "viri secreti mei", Montanus; "homines secreti mei", Cocceius, Schmidt; "viri arcani mei", Beza, Mercerus; "homines arcani mei consilii", Michaelis. n וזח "et quem", V. L. "et hie seu is quem", Mercerus, Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

All my inward friends - Margin, “the men of my secret.” The meaning is those, who were admitted to the intimacy of friendship or who were permitted to be acquainted with his secret thoughts, purposes, and plans. The word uses here (סוד sôd) denotes properly “a couch, cushions, pillow,” on which one reclines; then a “divan,” a circle of persons sitting together for consultation or conversation; and hence, it refers to those who are sitting together in intimate counsel, (see Job 15:8, note; Job 29:4, note) and then familiar conversation, intimacy. Here the phrase “men of my intimacy” (סודי sôdı̂y) denotes those who were admitted to intimate friendship. All such persons had now forsaken him, and turned against him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 19:19. My inward friends — Those who were my greatest intimates.


 
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