Psalm 38:11
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Cross-reference
In Psalm 31:11, the same lament of becoming a reproach to neighbors and acquaintances fleeing echoes this social abandonment due to suffering.
Psalm 88:18 echoes this loss: 'You have taken from me friend and neighbor' — the same theme of isolation in suffering.
In Job 19:13-17, Job describes brothers, relatives, and close friends estranged from him—a detailed parallel to the psalmist's abandonment by friends and kin.
In Matthew 26:56, the disciples desert Jesus at his arrest, fulfilling the pattern of the righteous sufferer abandoned by friends—a typological fulfillment.
In Luke 23:49, Jesus' acquaintances stand at a distance watching the crucifixion, directly mirroring the psalmist's friends and kin standing far off.
In John 16:32, Jesus predicts his disciples will scatter and leave him alone, directly echoing the psalmist's experience of being forsaken by companions.
In Job 19:14, Job similarly laments that relatives and close friends have failed him — a direct parallel to the abandonment described here.
Proverbs 19:7 states that the poor are shunned by relatives and avoided by friends — a proverbial expression of the same social abandonment.
Mark 14:50 says everyone deserted Jesus and fled — a direct NT parallel to the abandonment by friends here.
In Job 6:21-23, Job's friends prove useless and afraid when they see his distress, mirroring the friends who stand aloof from the psalmist's plague.
In Luke 22:54, Peter follows Jesus at a distance after his arrest, a specific instance of a companion distancing himself like the psalmist's friends.
In Job 6:15, Job compares his brothers to undependable streams, illustrating the unreliability of friends that matches the psalmist's abandonment.
In Luke 10:31, the priest passes by the wounded man on the other side, illustrating the same aloofness toward suffering seen in the psalmist's friends.
In Luke 10:32, the Levite also passes by the wounded man, reinforcing the theme of neglect that parallels the psalmist's friends standing aloof.