He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
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Gill's Exposition
My kinsfolk have failed,.... Or "ceased" (a), not to be, or that they were dead, which is sometimes the sense of the word; but they ceased from visiting him, or doing any good office for him; those…
Barnes' Notes
He hath put my brethren - This is a new source of afflication that he had not adverted to before, that God had caused all his children to be estranged from him - a calamity which he regarded as the…
Bildad had very disingenuously perverted Job's complaints by making them the description of the miserable condition of a wicked man; and yet he repeats them here, to move their pity, and to work upon…
The estrangement and abhorrence of men.
Job's complaint now is even more touching than before: God not only afflicted him with trouble but removed far from him all human sympathy. And there is…
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