King James Version
Job 19:14 in the King James Version says “My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.” — study this verse from Job chapter 19 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.”
Job 19:14 · KJV
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.
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“have failed”
H2308properly, to be flabby, i.e., (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle
“and my familiar friends”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
“have forgotten”
H7911to mislay, i.e., to be oblivious of, from want of memory or attention
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