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Job 19:13

God's Word

“My brothers stay far away from me. My friends are complete strangers to me.

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the spokesman for my thoughts. My eyes drip ⌞with tears⌟ to God

“But now, God has worn me out. You, ⌞God,⌟ have destroyed everyone who supports me.

Then all his brothers and sisters and everyone who had previously known him came to him. They ate with him at his house, sympathized with him, and comforted him for all the evil the Lord had brought to him. Each one gave him some money and a gold ring.

My brothers have been as deceptive as seasonal rivers, like the seasonal riverbeds that flood.

They are ashamed because they relied on the streams. Arriving there, they are disappointed.

I have become a disgrace because of all my opponents. I have become someone dreaded by my friends, even by my neighbors. Those who see me on the street run away from me.

I have faded from memory as if I were dead and have become like a piece of broken pottery.

My loved ones and my friends keep their distance and my relatives stand far away because of my sickness.

Those who seek my life lay traps for me. Those who are out to harm me talk about ruining me. All day long they think of ways to deceive me.

Even my closest friend whom I trusted, the one who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.

Insults have broken my heart, and I am sick. I looked for sympathy, but there was none. I looked for people to comfort me, but I found no one.

I have become a stranger to my ⌞own⌟ brothers, a foreigner to my mother’s sons.

Indeed, devotion for your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.

You have taken my loved ones and friends far away from me. Darkness is my only friend!

You have taken my friends far away from me. You made me disgusting to them. I’m shut in, and I can’t get out.

I called for those who love me, but they betrayed me. My priests and leaders breathed their last breath in the city, looking for food to keep themselves alive.

Jerusalem cries bitterly at night with tears running down its cheeks. Out of all those who love the city, no one offers it comfort. All of Jerusalem’s friends have betrayed it and become its enemies.

All of this has happened so that what the prophets have written would come true.” Then all the disciples abandoned him and ran away.

At my first hearing no one stood up in my defense. Everyone abandoned me. I pray that it won’t be held against them.




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