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Wycliffe Bible

Job 19:14

My neiyboris forsoken me; and thei that knewen me han foryete 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 Century Version
My relatives have gone away, and my 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.
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 He bisette aboute my path, and Y may not go; and he settide derknessis in my weie. 9 He hath spuylid me of my glorye, and hath take awey the coroun fro myn heed. 10 He hath distried me on ech side, and Y perischide; and he hath take awei myn hope, as fro a tre pullid vp bi the roote. 11 His stronge veniaunce was wrooth ayens me; and he hadde me so as his enemye. 12 Hise theues camen togidere, and `maden to hem a wei bi me; and bisegiden my tabernacle in cumpas. 13 He made fer my britheren fro me; and my knowun as aliens yeden awei fro me. 14 My neiyboris forsoken me; and thei that knewen me han foryete me. 15 The tenauntis of myn hows, and myn handmaydis hadden me as a straunger; and Y was as a pilgrym bifor her iyen. 16 Y clepide my seruaunt, and he answeride not to me; with myn owne mouth Y preiede hym. 17 My wijf wlatide my breeth; and Y preiede the sones of my wombe.

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
Forsothe bifore that thei yeden to sleepe, men of the citee compassiden his hows, fro a child `til to an eld man, al the puple togidre;
Genesis 19:8
Y haue twey douytris, that knewen not yit man; Y schal lede out hem to you, and mys vse ye hem as it plesith you, so that ye doon noon yuel to these men, for thei entriden vndur the schadewe of my roof.
Genesis 19:12
Forsothe thei seiden to Loth, Hast thou here ony man of thine, hosebonde of thi douyter, ethir sones, ethir douytris; lede thou out of this citee alle men that ben thine,
Genesis 19:14
And so Loth yede out, and spak to the hosebondys of his douytris, that schulden take hise douytris, and seide, Rise ye, and go ye out of this place; for the Lord schal do awey this citee. And he was seyn to hem to speke as pleiynge.
Genesis 19:17
And thei ledden out hym, and settiden with out the citee. There thei spaken to him, and seiden, Saue thou thi lijf; nyle thou biholde bihynde thi bac, nether stond thou in al the cuntre aboute, but make thee saaf in the hil; lest also thou perische togidere.
Genesis 19:22
haste thou, and be thou saued there, for Y may not do ony thing til thou entre thidur. Therfor the name of that citee was clepid Segor.
Genesis 19:28
and al the lond of that cuntrey; and he seiy a deed sparcle stiynge fro erthe, as the smoke of a furneis.
Genesis 19:30
And Loth stiede fro Segor, and dwellide in the hil, and hise twey douytris with him, for he dredde to dwelle in Segor; and he dwellide in a denne, he and his twey douytris with hym.
Exodus 9:21
sotheli he that dispiside the `Lordis word, lefte his seruauntis and werk beestis in the feeldis.
Exodus 12:31
And whanne Moises and Aaron weren clepid in the nyyt, Farao seide, Rise ye, go ye out fro my puple, bothe ye and the sones of Israel; go ye, offre ye to the Lord, as ye seien;

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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