All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.
All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.
All my intimate friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
All my inward friends abhor me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
My inward friends - Those who were my greatest intimates.
All my inward friends - Margin, "the men of my secret." The meaning is those, who were admitted to the intimacy of friendship or who were permitted to be acquainted with his secret thoughts, purposes, and plans. The word uses here (סוד sôd) denotes properly "a couch, cushions, pillow," on which one reclines; then a "divan," a circle of persons sitting together for consultation or conversation; and hence, it refers to those who are sitting together in intimate counsel, (see Job 15:8, note; Job 29:4, note) and then familiar conversation, intimacy. Here the phrase "men of my intimacy" (סודי sôdı̂y) denotes those who were admitted to intimate friendship. All such persons had now forsaken him, and turned against him.
19:19 Inward - My intimates and confidants, to whom I imparted all my thoughts and counsels.