14 My relatives have gone away;
    my closest friends(A) have forgotten me.

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14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

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14 My relatives have failed,
And my close friends have forgotten me.

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Even my close friend,(A)
    someone I trusted,
one who shared my bread,
    has turned[a] against me.(B)

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  1. Psalm 41:9 Hebrew has lifted up his heel

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

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(A)Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted,
(B)Who ate my bread,
Has [a]lifted up his heel against me.

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  1. Psalm 41:9 Acted as a traitor

13 But it is you, a man like myself,
    my companion, my close friend,(A)

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13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.

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13 But it was you, a man my equal,
(A)My companion and my acquaintance.

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“Beware of your friends;(A)
    do not trust anyone in your clan.(B)
For every one of them is a deceiver,[a](C)
    and every friend a slanderer.(D)

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  1. Jeremiah 9:4 Or a deceiving Jacob

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

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“Everyone(A) take heed to his [a]neighbor,
And do not trust any brother;
For every brother will utterly supplant,
And every neighbor will (B)walk with slanderers.

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  1. Jeremiah 9:4 friend