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New Century Version

Job 19:14

My relatives have gone away, and my friends have forgotten me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Friendship;   Thompson Chain Reference - Job;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ingratitude;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Know, Knowledge;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Leper;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Familiar;   Job, Book of;   Lead;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
My relatives stop coming by,and my close friends have forgotten me.
Hebrew Names Version
My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
King James Version
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
English Standard Version
My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me.
New English Translation
My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me.
Amplified Bible
"My relatives have failed [me], And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
New American Standard Bible
"My relatives have failed, And my close friends have forgotten me.
World English Bible
My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.
Legacy Standard Bible
My relatives have failed,And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Berean Standard Bible
My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
Contemporary English Version
and I am forgotten.
Complete Jewish Bible
my kinsfolk have failed me, and my close friends have forgotten me.
Darby Translation
My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.
Easy-to-Read Version
My relatives have left me. My friends have forgotten me.
George Lamsa Translation
My kinsfolk have failed me, and my familiar friends have forsaken me.
Good News Translation
my relatives and friends are gone.
Lexham English Bible
My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me.
Literal Translation
My near ones have fallen away, and ones knowing me have forgotten me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Myne owne kyn?folkes haue forsaken me, and my frendes haue put me out of remembraunce.
American Standard Version
My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Bible in Basic English
My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
King James Version (1611)
My kinsefolke haue failed, and my familiar friends haue forgotten me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Myne owne kinsefolkes haue forsaken me, and my best acquainted haue forgotten me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
My nearest of kin have not acknowledged me, and they that knew my name, have forgotten me.
English Revised Version
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
My neiyboris forsoken me; and thei that knewen me han foryete me.
Update Bible Version
My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Webster's Bible Translation
My kinsmen have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
New King James Version
My relatives have failed, And my close friends have forgotten me.
New Living Translation
My family is gone, and my close friends have forgotten me.
New Life Bible
My brothers have left me, and my close friends have forgotten me.
New Revised Standard
My relatives and my close friends have failed me;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me;
Douay-Rheims Bible
My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.
Revised Standard Version
My kinsfolk and my close friends have failed me;
Young's Literal Translation
Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"My relatives have failed, And my intimate friends have forgotten me.

Contextual Overview

8 God has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has covered my paths with darkness. 9 He has taken away my honor and removed the crown from my head. 10 He beats me down on every side until I am gone; he destroys my hope like a fallen tree. 11 His anger burns against me, and he treats me like an enemy. 12 His armies gather; they prepare to attack me. They camp around my tent. 13 "God has made my brothers my enemies, and my friends have become strangers. 14 My relatives have gone away, and my friends have forgotten me. 15 My guests and my female servants treat me like a stranger; they look at me as if I were a foreigner. 16 I call for my servant, but he does not answer, even when I beg him with my own mouth. 17 My wife can't stand my breath, and my own family dislikes me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

kinsfolk: Psalms 38:11, Proverbs 18:24, Micah 7:5, Micah 7:6, Matthew 10:21

familiar: 2 Samuel 16:23, Psalms 55:12-14, Jeremiah 20:10, John 13:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 40:23 - but forgat him Job 2:8 - took him Job 2:12 - knew him Job 30:10 - flee far Job 42:11 - all his brethren Psalms 31:11 - especially Proverbs 14:20 - poor Lamentations 1:2 - all her friends Mark 14:50 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
Before bedtime, men both young and old and from every part of Sodom surrounded Lot's house.
Genesis 19:8
Look! I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. I will give them to you, and you may do anything you want with them. But please don't do anything to these men. They have come to my house, and I must protect them."
Genesis 19:12
The two men said to Lot, "Do you have any other relatives in this city? Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or any other relatives? If you do, tell them to leave now,
Genesis 19:14
So Lot went out and said to his future sons-in-law who were pledged to marry his daughters, "Hurry and leave this city! The Lord is about to destroy it!" But they thought Lot was joking.
Genesis 19:17
After they brought them out of the city, one of the men said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Run to the mountains, or you will be destroyed."
Genesis 19:22
But run there fast, because I cannot destroy Sodom until you are safely in that town." (That town is named Zoar, because it is little.)
Genesis 19:28
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the Jordan Valley and saw smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
Genesis 19:30
Lot was afraid to continue living in Zoar, so he and his two daughters went to live in the mountains in a cave.
Exodus 9:21
But others ignored the Lord 's message and left their slaves and animals in the fields.
Exodus 12:31
During the night the king called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Get up and leave my people. You and your people may do as you have asked; go and worship the Lord .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My kinsfolk have failed,.... Or "ceased" a, not to be, or that they were dead, which is sometimes the sense of the word; but they ceased from visiting him, or doing any good office for him; those that were "near" b him, as the word used signifies; that were near him in relation, and were often near him in place, in his own house, in company and conversation with him, now ceased to be near him in affection; or to come nigh him, to converse with him and comfort him, and sympathize with him, which might be expected from persons nearly related:

and my familiar friends have forgotten me; such as were well known to him, and he to them, and who not long ago were very loving and friendly to him, and very freely and familiarly conversed with him; but now they forgot him; the friendship that subsisted between them, the friendliness with which they had visited him, and the favours they had received from him; they so slighted and neglected him, that it seemed as if he was forgotten, as a dead man, out of mind; or as if they did not remember that there ever was, or at least that there now was, such a man in the world as Job: these could not be true friends; for "a friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity",

Proverbs 17:17; a real friend loves, and continues to love, in adversity as well as in prosperity; and such an one, who sometimes sticks closer to a man than a brother, is born and designed to be of service to him in a time of trouble; but so it was ordered by divine Providence, and according to the will of God, that Job should meet with such treatment from his brethren, relations, acquaintance, and familiar friends, for the trial of his faith and patience.

a חדלו "desierunt", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Mercerus, Drusius, Piscator, Schmidt, Michaelis; "cessant", Schultens. b קרובי "propinqui mei", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My kinsfolk have failed - My neighbors (קרובי qârôbāy), those who were near to me. It may refer to “nearness” of affinity, friendship, or residence. The essential idea is that of “nearness” - whether by blood, affection, or vicinity. In Psalms 38:11, it denotes near friends.

And my familiar friends - Those who knew me - מידעי myudā‛ay. The allusion is to those who were “intimately” acquainted with him, or who were his bosom friends.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 19:14. My kinsfolk have failed — Literally, departed: they have all left my house, now there is no more hope of gain.


 
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