Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 19:13

"He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me." — Job 19:13 (ASV)

He has put my brethren far from me. —The Psalmist has apparently copied this in Psalm 88:8. The sense of human desertion is hardly less terrible than that of being forsaken by God, and this has been added to him.

It is not easy to read these sad complaints of Job without seeing how fittingly they apply to the sorrows of the Man of Sorrows. Those who, with the present writer, believe in the overruling presence of the Holy Ghost will adore His wisdom in this fitness; but at all events it shows how completely Christ entered into the very heart of human suffering, because the deepest expressions of suffering inevitably remind us of Him, whether those expressions are met with in the Book of Job, in the Psalms of David, or in the Lamentations of Jeremiah.