“My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.”
The psalmist describes how his friends and companions stand aloof from his affliction, and his kinsmen stand far off. The social isolation compounds the physical suffering: those who should offer support instead withdraw. This verse conveys the particular cruelty of suffering: not only physical pain but the abandonment of those closest to the psalmist.
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