23 Bible Verses about Friendlessness

You have taken lover and friend far from me, and those who know me into darkness.

You have taken my friends away from me; You have made me a hateful thing to them. I am shut up, and I cannot go out.

I watch, and am as a sparrow alone on the house top.

I looked on my right hand, and I watched, but no one recognized me; escape was lost to me; no man cared for my soul.

I was a reproach among all my foes, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my friends; those who saw me outside fled from me. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.

My lovers and my friends stand apart from my plague; and my neighbors stand far off.

He has put my brothers far from me, and my friends have truly turned away from me. My people have fallen away, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. Those who dwell in my house, and my slave-girls, count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.read more.
I called my servant, and he gave no answer; I must beg him with my mouth. My breath is hated by my wife, and I must beg to the sons of my mother's womb. Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me. All the men of my counsel detest me, even this one I loved has turned against me.

They despise me, and they flee far from me; they do not spare spit from my face.

For I have heard the slander of many; fear is on every side; because of their plottings together against me, they planned to take away my life.

For I heard the slanders of many, Terror is all around! Expose! Yea, let us expose him! Every man of my peace is watching for my fall, saying, Perhaps he will be lured away, and we shall prevail over him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

And he said, I have been very zealous for Jehovah the God of Hosts. For the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, thrown down Your altars, and have slain Your prophets with the sword. And I, I alone, am left. And they seek to take my life away.

And leaving Him, all fled.

He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as it were a hiding of faces from Him, He being despised, and we esteemed Him not.

But all this happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples fled, forsaking Him.

Behold, the hour comes, yea, has now come, that you will be scattered, each man to his own things, and you will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

And he was longing to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, and no one gave to him.

The infirm man answered Him, Sir, when the water is troubled, I have no one to put me into the pool. But while I am coming, another steps down before me.

At my first answer no one was beside me, but all deserted me. May it not be laid to their charge.

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and he has departed to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you, for he is profitable to me for the ministry.

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.

And it happened when he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was joined with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as he did his own soul.

I am a companion of all who fear You, and of those who keep Your Commandments.

There was a certain rich man who was customarily clothed in purple and fine linen and making merry in luxury every day.