Verse 15

My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 38:11 : 11 My lovers and my friends over-against my plague stand. And my neighbours afar off have stood.
  • Jer 15:18 : 18 Why hath my pain been perpetual? And my wound incurable? It hath refused to be healed, Thou art surely to me as a failing stream, Waters not stedfast.
  • Ps 41:9 : 9 Even mine ally, in whom I trusted, One eating my bread, made great the heel against me,
  • John 13:18 : 18 not concerning you all do I speak; I have known whom I chose for myself; but that the Writing may be fulfilled: He who is eating the bread with me, did lift up against me his heel.
  • John 16:32 : 32 and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me;
  • Jude 1:12 : 12 These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;
  • Jer 30:14 : 14 all loving thee have forgotten thee, Thee they do not seek, For with the stroke of an enemy I smote thee, The chastisement of a fierce one, Because of the abundance of thy iniquity, Mighty have been thy sins!
  • Mic 7:5-6 : 5 Believe not in a friend, trust not in a leader, From her who is lying in thy bosom keep the openings of thy mouth. 6 For a son is dishonouring a father, A daughter hath stood against her mother, A daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, The enemies of each `are' the men of his house.
  • Ps 55:12-14 : 12 For an enemy reproacheth me not, or I bear `it', He who is hating me Hath not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him. 13 But thou, a man -- as mine equal, My familiar friend, and mine acquaintance. 14 When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company.
  • Ps 88:18 : 18 Thou hast put far from me lover and friend, Mine acquaintance `is' the place of darkness!
  • Jer 9:4-5 : 4 Each of his friend -- beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk, 5 And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.
  • Job 19:19 : 19 Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.