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Job 19:12–15

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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.
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From verse 12

  1. Job 30:12Rank 1 from verse 12
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    12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

  2. Job 16:13Rank 2 from verse 12
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    13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

  3. Job 16:11Rank 3 from verse 12
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    11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

  4. Isaiah 10:5–6Rank 4 from verse 12
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    5¶ O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

    6I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

  5. Isaiah 51:23Rank 5 from verse 12
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    23But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

From verse 13

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    8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

  2. Psalms 69:8Rank 2 from verse 13
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    8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.

  3. Psalms 88:18Rank 3 from verse 13
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    18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

  4. Psalms 31:11Rank 4 from verse 13
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    11I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

  5. Psalms 69:20Rank 5 from verse 13
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    20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

From verse 14

  1. Psalms 38:11Rank 1 from verse 14
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    11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

  2. 2 Samuel 16:23Rank 2 from verse 14
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    23And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

  3. Jeremiah 20:10Rank 3 from verse 14
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    10¶ For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

  4. John 13:18Rank 4 from verse 14
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    18¶ I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.

  5. Matthew 10:21Rank 5 from verse 14
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    21And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

From verse 15

  1. Job 31:31–32Rank 1 from verse 15
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    31If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

    32The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

  2. Psalms 123:3Rank 2 from verse 15
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    3Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

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DEFINED WORDS

Job 19:12

COMBINED MEANING

troops

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Gathered companies, bands, or multitudes, often armed or prepared for action.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

raise

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Sense 1: To rouse; to stir up. Sense 2: To lift or set upright. Sense 3: To exalt. Sense 4: To build or produce. Sense 5: To call forth. Sense 6: To restore to life.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

against

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Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

about

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1. Around or near in place, position, or movement; on every side, in a circuit, from place to place, or turned from one direction or state toward another. 2. Approximately in number, measure, distance, or time. 3. Concerning, occupied with, or engaged in a matter. 4. On the point of, intending, or attempting an action.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

tabernacle

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Sense 1: A tent, booth, or dwelling; especially Israel’s sacred tent of worship. Sense 2: Figuratively, the body as a dwelling.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Job 19:13

COMBINED MEANING

put

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To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

brethren

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1. Persons of the same people, tribe, community, or shared service who are regarded or addressed as brothers. 2. Persons regarded as brothers by reason of faith or another spiritual relation. 3. Male siblings or other male relatives.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

estranged

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Made or become distant, alienated, separated, unfamiliar, or turned away from a person, place, duty, affection, or rightful relation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Job 19:14

COMBINED MEANING

failed

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Sense 1: Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of fail, meaning to become deficient; to be insufficient; to cease to be abundant for supply. Sense 2: To be entirely wanting.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Job 19:15

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

house

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Sense 1: A building or dwelling. Sense 2: The people of a household or family. Sense 3: A lineage or family line. Sense 4: As a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

count

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Sense 1: To number or calculate. Sense 2: To reckon, regard, esteem, or account as. Sense 3: A number, reckoning, or calculated allowance.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

alien

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A stranger or foreigner; one not belonging to, or treated as outside, a people, place, or relation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604

COMBINED MEANING

sight

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1. The act or power of seeing. 2. A thing seen, view, or appearance. 3. Presence or observation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

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13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

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14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

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15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

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16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

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