23 Bible Verses about Friendlessness
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You have removed loved one and friend far from me, my acquaintances [far from my] darkness.
You have removed my acquaintances far from me. You have made me detestable to them. [I am] confined and cannot go out.
I lie awake and I am like a lone bird on a roof.
look to [my] right and see. There is no one looking out for me; there is no escape for me; no one cares for my soul.
Because of all my adversaries I have become a disgrace, especially to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. [Those who] see me in the street flee from me. I have become forgotten like [one] dead, out of {mind}. I am like a destroyed vessel.
My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my relatives stand afar off.
"He has removed my kinsfolk from me, and my acquaintances have only turned aside from me. My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me. The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.read more.
I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I must {personally} plead with him. My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to {my own family}. Little boys also despise me; [when] I rise, then they talk against me. All {my intimate friends} abhor me, and these [whom] I have loved have turned against me.
They abhor me; they keep aloof from me, and they do not withhold spit from my face
For I hear [the] rumor of many, "Terror on every side!" When conspiring together against me, they have plotted to take my life.
For I hear the rumor of many, "Terror [is] from all around, denounce [him], yes, let us denounce him!" {All my close friends} [are] watchers of my stumbling, [saying], "perhaps he can be persuaded, and we can prevail over him, and we can take our revenge on him."
Then he said, "I have been very zealous for Yahweh the God of hosts, for the {Israelites} have forsaken your covenant. They have demolished your altars, and they have killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left over, and they seek to take my life.
And they all abandoned him [and] fled.
[He was] despised and rejected [by] men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with sickness, and like {one from whom others hide their faces}, [he was] despised, and we did not hold him in high regard.
But all this has happened in order that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled." Then the disciples all abandoned him [and] fled.
Behold, an hour is coming--and has come--that you will be scattered each one to his own [home], and you will leave me alone. And I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
And he was longing to fill his stomach with the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving [anything] to him.
The one who was sick answered him, "Sir, I do not have anyone that, whenever the water is stirred up, could put me into the pool. But {while} I am coming, another goes down before me."
At my first defense, no one came to my [aid], but [they] all deserted me; may it not be counted against them.
For Demas deserted me, [because he] loved the present age, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens [went] to Galatia; Titus [went] to Dalmatia. Luke alone is with me. Take along Mark [and] bring [him] with you, because he is useful to me for ministry.
Then Yahweh God said, "[it is] not good [that] the man is alone. I will make for him a helper {as his counterpart}."
{When} he finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan became attached to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his [own] soul.
"Now a certain man was rich, and dressed [in] purple cloth and fine linen, feasting sumptuously every day.
