23 Bible Verses about Friendlessness

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness. A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.

I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

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. I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

"He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.read more.
I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth. My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother. Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don't hesitate to spit in my face.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

He said, "I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."

They all left him, and fled.

He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn't respect him.

But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him, and fled.

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me."

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.

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

It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.