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Douay-Rheims Bible

Job 19:19

They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I loved most is 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.
King James Version (1611)
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loued, 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;
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 He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness. 9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head. 10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up. 11 His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy. 12 His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about. 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me. 14 My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me. 15 They that dwell in my house, and my maidservants have counted me as a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes. 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth. 17 My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.

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, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.
Genesis 19:1
And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground.
Genesis 19:7
Do not so, I beseech you, my brethren, do not commit this evil.
Genesis 19:11
And them, that were without, they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.
Genesis 19:14
So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.
Genesis 19:16
And as he lingered, they took his hand, and the hand of his wife, and of his two daughters, because the Lord spared him.
Genesis 19:17
And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thy self in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.
Genesis 19:19
Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die.
Genesis 19:22
Make haste, and be saved there: because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.
Genesis 19:25
And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.

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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