Job 6:15
My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.
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- Ps 38:11 : 11 Because of my condition, even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance; my neighbors stand far away.
- Jer 15:18 : 18 Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish? Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound? Will you let me down when I need you like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?”
- Ps 41:9 : 9 Even my close friend whom I trusted, he who shared meals with me, has turned against me.
- John 13:18 : 18 The Announcement of Jesus’ Betrayal“What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture,‘The one who eats my bread has turned against me.’
- John 16:32 : 32 Look, a time is coming– and has come– when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.
- Jude 1:12 : 12 These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit– twice dead, uprooted;
- Jer 30:14 : 14 All your allies have abandoned you. They no longer have any concern for you. For I have attacked you like an enemy would. I have chastened you cruelly. For your wickedness is so great and your sin is so much.
- Mic 7:5-6 : 5 Do not rely on a friend; do not trust a companion! Even with the one who lies in your arms, do not share secrets! 6 For a son thinks his father is a fool, a daughter challenges her mother, and a daughter-in-law her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are his own family.
- Ps 55:12-14 : 12 Indeed, it is not an enemy who insults me, or else I could bear it; it is not one who hates me who arrogantly taunts me, or else I could hide from him. 13 But it is you, a man like me, my close friend in whom I confided. 14 We would share personal thoughts with each other; in God’s temple we would walk together among the crowd.
- Ps 88:18 : 18 You cause my friends and neighbors to keep their distance; those who know me leave me alone in the darkness.
- Jer 9:4-5 : 4 Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all of his friends will tell lies about him. 5 One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.
- Job 19:19 : 19 All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.
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16They are dark because of ice; snow is piled up over them.
17When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
18Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.
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6As a matter of fact, even your own brothers and the members of your own family have betrayed you too. Even they have plotted to do away with you. So do not trust them even when they say kind things to you.
- Job 19:13-142 verses72%
13Job’s Forsaken State“He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.
14My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me.
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7Indictments Against the Cities of Israel and Judah At Adam they broke the covenant; Oh how they were unfaithful to me!
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7For this reason what they have made and stored up, they carry over the Stream of the Poplars.
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19a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members.
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14Disappointing Friends“To the one in despair, kindness should come from his friend even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
- Job 30:13-142 verses70%
13They destroy my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone assisting them.
14They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.
- Jer 9:2-65 verses69%
2(9:1) I wish I had a lodging place in the wilderness where I could spend some time like a weary traveler. Then I would desert my people and walk away from them because they are all unfaithful to God, a congregation of people that has been disloyal to him.
3The Lord Laments That He Has No Choice But to Judge Them The LORD says,“These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me.
4Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all of his friends will tell lies about him.
5One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.
6They do one act of violence after another, and one deceitful thing after another. They refuse to pay attention to me,” says the LORD.
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6How the people of Esau will be thoroughly plundered! Their hidden valuables will be ransacked!
7All your allies will force you from your homeland! Your treaty partners will deceive you and overpower you. Your trusted friends will set an ambush for you that will take you by surprise!
- Mic 6:11-122 verses69%
11I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.
12The city’s wealthy people readily resort to violence; her inhabitants tell lies, their tongues speak deceptive words.
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10From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.
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10The Rebellion of the People Do we not all have one father? Did not one God create us? Why do we betray one another, in this way making light of the covenant of our ancestors?
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18“You say,‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.
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13“Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”
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16Do not be led astray, my dear brothers and sisters.
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15My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;
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15whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
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8But you yourselves wrong and cheat, and you do this to your brothers and sisters!
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15The Capital of the Northern Empire Will Be Destroyed Even though he flourishes like a reed plant, a scorching east wind will come, a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. As a result, his spring will dry up; his well will become dry. That wind will spoil all his delightful foods in the containers in his storehouse.
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20But, you have been unfaithful to me, nation of Israel, like an unfaithful wife who has left her husband,” says the LORD.
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15But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.
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11For the nations of Israel and Judah have been very unfaithful to me,”says the LORD.
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15Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked–
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7All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him– one who chases words, which are nothing.
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16how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!
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26“Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.
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2Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.
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6They stalk and lurk; they watch my every step, as they prepare to take my life.
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26Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.
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15Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence is broken.
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17A friend loves at all times, and a relative is born to help in adversity.
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28I reported,“All of them are the most stubborn of rebels! They are as hard as bronze or iron. They go about telling lies. They all deal corruptly.
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13“That is because, from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike, all of them practice deceit.
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12Those who seek my life try to entrap me; those who want to harm me speak destructive words; all day long they say deceitful things.
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18Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish? Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound? Will you let me down when I need you like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?”
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4The words of a person’s mouth are like deep waters, and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
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22Your silver has become scum, your beer is diluted with water.
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11As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up,
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16From the ends of the earth we hear songs– the Just One is majestic. But I say,“I’m wasting away! I’m wasting away! I’m doomed! Deceivers deceive, deceivers thoroughly deceive!”