Job Chapter 19 verse 13 Holy Bible
He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
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He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.
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He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.
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He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
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He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
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"He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
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My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - He hath put my brethren far from me. Job had actual "brothers" (Job 42:11), who forsook him and "dealt deceitfully" with him (Job 6:15) during the time of his adversity, but were glad enough to return to him and "eat bread with him" in his later prosperous life. Their alienation from him during the period of his afflictions he here regards as among the trials laid upon him by God. Compare the similar woe of Job's great Antitype (John 5:5, "For neither did his brethren believe on him"). And mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me (comp. Psalm 38:11; Psalm 69:9; Psalm 88:8, 18). The desertion of the afflicted by their fair-weather friends is a standing topic with the poets and moralists of all ages and nations. Job was not singular in this affliction.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) He hath put my brethren far from me.--The Psalmist has apparently copied this in Psalm 88:8. The sense of human desertion is hardly less terrible than that of being forsaken by God, and this has been added to him. It is not easy to read these sad complaints of Job without seeing how fitly they apply to the sorrows of the Man of sorrows. Those who, with the present writer, believe in the overruling presence of the Holy Ghost will adore His wisdom in this fitness; but at all events it shows how completely Christ entered into the very heart of human suffering, in that the deepest expressions of suffering inevitably remind us of Him, whether those expressions are met with in the Book of Job, in the Psalms of David, or in the Lamentations of Jeremiah.
