They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.
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TSK · Job 19:13
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But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.
Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.
Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness. A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.
At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.