He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
Job's affliction included being set at a distance from his brothers and estranged from his acquaintances, so that social isolation formed part of his suffering. In that separated state he felt forsaken by those nearest to him, with his kin failing him and his familiar friends forgetting him. That sense of being forsaken reached beyond people close to him to heaven itself, leaving him feeling abandoned both by earth and by heaven.
Job's affliction included being set at a distance from his brothers and estranged from his acquaintances, so that social isolation formed part of his suffering. In that separated state he felt forsaken by those nearest to him, with his kin failing him and his familiar friends forgetting him. That sense of being forsaken reached beyond people close to him to heaven itself, leaving him feeling abandoned both by earth and by heaven.