Psalm 38:11 {37:12}
Good News Translation
My friends and neighbors will not come near me, because of my sores; even my family keeps away from me.

New Revised Standard Version
My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my neighbors stand far off.

Contemporary English Version
Because of my sickness, no friends or neighbors will come near me.

New American Bible
Friends and companions shun my disease; my neighbors stand far off.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against me. And they that were near me stood afar off:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against me. And they that were near me stood afar off:

lovers

Psalm 31:11 I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintances. They that saw me without fled from me.

Job 6:21-23 Now you are come: and now, seeing my affliction, you are afraid. . . .

Job 19:13-17 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me. . . .

Matthew 26:56 Now all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then the disciples, all leaving him, fled.

John 16:32 Behold, the hour cometh, and it is now come, that you shall be scattered every man to his own and shall leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

stand

Luke 10:31,32 And it chanced, that a certain priest went down the same way: and seeing him, passed by. . . .

sore [heb.

Luke 22:54 And apprehending him, they led him to the high priest's house. But Peter followed afar off.

Luke 23:49 And all his acquaintance and the women that had followed him from Galilee stood afar off, beholding these things.

Context
Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger
10My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, and the light of my eyes itself is not with me. 11My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against me. And they that were near me stood afar off:12And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long.…
Cross References
Luke 23:49
And all his acquaintance and the women that had followed him from Galilee stood afar off, beholding these things.

Job 6:21
Now you are come: and now, seeing my affliction, you are afraid.

Job 19:19
They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I loved most is turned against me.

Psalm 31:11
I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintances. They that saw me without fled from me.

Psalm 69:8
I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.

Psalm 88:18
Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery.

Proverbs 19:7
The brethren of the poor man hate him: moreover also his friends have departed far from him. He that followeth after words only, shall have nothing.

Psalm 38:10
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