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Job 19:14

Bible in Basic English 1965

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

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But the wine-servant did not keep Joseph in mind or give a thought to him.

In those days the opinions of Ahithophel were valued as highly as if through him a man might get direction from God; so were they valued by David as much as by Absalom.

I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.

All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.

There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.

For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing there is fear on every side: they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

She is sorrowing bitterly in the night, and her face is wet with weeping; among all her lovers she has no comforter: all her friends have been false to her, they have become her haters.

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

I am not talking of you all: I have knowledge of my true disciples, but things are as they are, so that the Writings may come true, The foot of him who takes bread with me is lifted up against me.




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