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Psalms Chapter 88 verse 18 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 88:18

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness. Psalm 89 Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
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BBE Psalms 88:18

You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.
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DARBY Psalms 88:18

Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness.
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KJV Psalms 88:18

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
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WBT Psalms 88:18

They came around me daily like water; they encompassed me together.
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WEB Psalms 88:18

You have put lover and friend far from me, And my friends into darkness.
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YLT Psalms 88:18

Thou hast put far from me lover and friend, Mine acquaintance `is' the place of darkness!
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Lover and friend hast thou put far from me (comp. ver. 8 and Job 19:13). And mine acquaintance into darkness; literally, and my intimates [are] darkness; i.e. "when I look for a friend or an acquaintance, my eye meets nothing but darkness," or "dark space."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) And mine acquaintance into darkness.--This is an erroneous rendering. Rather, My acquaintance is darkness, or, darkness is my friend, having taken the place of those removed. The feeling resembles Job 17:14; or we may illustrate by Tennyson's lines:--"O sorrow, wilt thou live with me,No casual mistress, but a wife,My bosom friend, and half my life?As I confess it needs must be."