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"He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
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The Pain of Abandonment
Commentators explain that Job is describing a new and profound dimension of his suffering: the complete abandonment by his family and friends. He sees God as the ultimate cause of this isolation, which makes the pain even deeper. This highlights the terrible human experience of being deserted by loved ones in a time of greatest need.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
He has put my brethren - This is a new source of affliction that he had not referred to before: that God had caused all his childre…
19th Century
Anglican
He has put my brethren far from me. —The Psalmist has apparently copied this in Psalm 88:8. The sense of human desertion …
Baptist
He looks on those so-called "friends" of his, and, remembering the bitter things they had said, he tells them that they are estranged from him.
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He has put my brethren far from me As it is one part of business in war to cut off all communication between the ene…
How sorrowful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God? Seared consciences will feel it in the afterlife, but do not fea…
13th Century
Catholic
In the previous discourse, it seems Bildad intended two things. First, he intended to refute Job for his stupidity, pride, and anger ([Reference Jo…
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