to widen (in any direction) · verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
brethren
אַ֭חַי'A.chai
H251
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relation… · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
far
רָחַקrâchaq
H7368
to widen (in any direction)
acquaintance
וְ֝יֹדְעַ֗יve.yo.de.'Ai
H3045
to know (properly · conjunction + verb, qal active participle, masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
estranged
זָ֥רוּZa.ru
H2114
to turn aside (especially for lodging) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
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Cross-references
Psalms 88:8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Psalms 69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
Psalms 88:18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Psalms 31:11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without f…
Psalms 69:20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I…
Job 6:21-23 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
Job 16:7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Psalms 38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Job 19:8-22
Bildad had very disingenuously perverted Job's complaints by making them the description of the miserable condition of a wicked man; and yet he repeats them here, to move their pity, and to work upon their good nature, if they had any left in them.
I. He complains of the tokens of God's displeasure which he was under, and which infused the wormwood and gall into the affliction and misery. How doleful are the accents of his complaints! "He hath kindled his wrath against me, which flames and terrifies me, which burns and pains me," Job 19:11. What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God? Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now. Enlightened consciences fear it now, bu…
brethren--nearest kinsmen, as distinguished from "acquaintance." So "kinsfolk" and "familiar friends" (Job 19:14) correspond in parallelism. The Arabic proverb is, "The brother, that is, the true friend, is only known in time of need."
estranged--literally, "turn away with disgust." Job again unconsciously uses language prefiguring the desertion of Jesus Christ (Job 16:10; Luk 23:49; Psa 38:11).
John Gill on Job 19:13
He hath put my brethren far from me,.... As it is one part of business in war to cut off all communication between the enemy and their confederates and auxiliaries, and to hinder them of all the help and assistance from them they can; so Job here represents God dealing with him as with an enemy, and therefore keeps at a distance from him all such from whom he might expect comfort and succour, as particularly his brethren; by whom may be meant such who in a natural relation are strictly and properly brethren; for such Job had, as appears from Job 42:11; who afterwards paid him a visit, and showed brotherly love to him; but for the present the affliction that God laid upon him had such an infl…
"My brothers have gone away. It was to correct me, because they are my brothers. However, they scorned at first to take me back, like those who have followed foreign advice, bad advice. "And my friends have been for. me without guts. In spiritual afflictions they do not console their friends, they only know how to make fun of them; he would never do it for carnal afflictions.
The grace of the Gospel testifies that these words have been said about the Lord in truth. John, in fact, says, "His brothers did not believe in him," when they said to him, "Leave from here, and go into Judea, so that your disciples may also see the works that you do. For there is no man that does anything in secret, and he himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world." They said that because they did not know his ability and "recognized strangers rather than" him. This certainly referred to the Jews, that is, they looked after their own interests, and when he had to be admired, they despised him.
He hath put my brethren far from me; and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. My kinsfolk, have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION We shall shew this the better, if we bring forward the testimony of John, who says, He came unto His own, and His own received Him not; for His 'brethren were put far from Him,' and His 'acquaintance were estranged' from Him, Whom the Hebrews that held the Law were taught to prophesy, and never knew to acknowledge when present; whence it is rightly said: My kinsfolk have failed me, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. For the Jews; 'kinsfolk' in the flesh, 'acquaintance' by the teaching of the Law, as it were forgot Him, Whom they had foretold, in that Him they both sung of in the words of the Law, as destined to be made Incarnate, and when made Incarnate denied Him by the words of unbelief.
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Dictionary and topics
Friendship · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
12 His troops came together,
And threw up their way against me,
And encamped round about my tent.
13 My brethren hath He removed far from me,
And my acquaintance are quite estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk fail,
And those that knew me have forgotten me.
15 The slaves of my house and my maidens,
They regard me as a stranger,
I am become a perfect stranger in their eyes.
It may seem strange that we do not connect Job 19:12 with the preceding strophe or group of verses; but between Job 19:7 and Job 19:21 there are thirty στίχοι, which, in connection with the arrangement of the rest of this speech in decastichs (accidentally coinciding remarkably with the prominence given to the number ten in J…
