You have driven my friends away
by making me repulsive to them.
I am in a trap with no way to escape.
My eyes are blinded by my tears.
Each day I beg for your help, O LORD;
I lift my hands to you for mercy.
You have driven my friends away by making me repulsive to them.
Job 19:13
"My relatives stay far away,
and my friends have turned against me." (see verses 13-19)
Job 30:10
"They despise me and won't come near me,
except to spit in my face." (see verses 1-15)
Psalm 31:11
I am scorned by all my enemies
and despised by my neighbors--
even my friends are afraid to come near me.
When they see me on the street,
they run the other way. (see verses 9-13)
Psalm 38:11
My loved ones and friends stay away,
fearing my disease.
Even my own family stands at a distance. (see all Psalm 38)
Psalm 69:8
Even my own brothers pretend they don't know me;
they treat me like a stranger. (see all Psalm 69)
I am in a trap with no way to escape.
Job 3:23
"Why is life given to those with no future,
those God has surrounded with difficulties?" (see verses 20-26)
Job 6:4
"For the Almighty has struck me down with his arrows.
Their poison infects my spirit.
God's terrors are lined up against me." (see verses 1-13)
Job 16:12-13
"I was living quietly until he shattered me.
He took me by the neck and broke me in pieces.
Then he set me up as his target,
and now his archers surround me.
His arrows pierce me with out mercy.
The ground is wet with my blood." (see all chapter 16)
Job 19:6
"But it is God who has wronged me,
capturing me in his net." (see verses 1-12)
Lamentations 3:7
He has walled me in, and I cannot escape.
He has bound me in heavy chains. (see verses 1-24)
(parentheses are mine)
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living
Translation, copyright ©1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation.
Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois
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