Quotes about Isolation
My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
- Job 19:14
My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
- Job 19:15
My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
- Job 19:17
Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
- Job 19:18
All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
- Job 19:19
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
- Job 24:16
Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.
- Job 28:4
They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,
- Job 30:5
They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.
- Job 30:7
They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
- Job 30:10
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
- Job 30:29
because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—
- Job 31:34