Job 19:14

What does Job 19:14 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 19:14 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.

Context

v.13He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

v.14This passage

v.15They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 55:12

    For it was not an enemy that reproached me; Then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; Then I would have hid myself from him:

  • Psalms 38:11

    My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.

  • John 13:18

    I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth my bread lifted up his heel against me.

  • Matthew 10:21

    And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

  • Proverbs 18:24

    He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

  • Jeremiah 20:10

    For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

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