King James Version
Job 19:13 in the King James Version says “He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.” — study this verse from Job chapter 19 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.”
Job 19:13 · KJV
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“my brethren”
H251a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance [like h0001])
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“He hath put”
H7368to widen (in any direction), i.e., (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
“from me and mine acquaintance”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
“are verily estranged”
H2114to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
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