Psalms 38:11Open English Bible (Commonwealth)
My dear ones and friends keep aloof, and my neighbours stand afar off.
My dear ones and friends keep aloof, and my neighbours stand afar off.
Ruth 2:21
‘He told me,’ Ruth said, ‘that I must keep near his young men until they have completed all his harvest.’
Ruth 4:4
and I thought that I would lay the matter before you, suggesting that you buy it in the presence of these men who sit here and of the elders of my people. If you will buy it and so keep it in the possession of the family, do so; but if not; then tell me, so that I may know; for no one but you has the right to buy it, and I am next to you.’ ‘I will buy it,’ he said.
Esther 3:8
So Haman said to King Ahasuerus, ‘There is a certain people scattered among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, whose laws differ from those of every other and who do not keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not right for the king to tolerate them.
Esther 5:10
Nevertheless Haman restrained himself and went home. He called together his friends and Zeresh his wife
Esther 5:14
Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, ‘Let a gallows seventy-five feet high be erected, and in the morning speak to the king and let Mordecai be hanged on it. Then go merrily with the king to the banquet.’ The advice pleased Haman, and so he had the gallows erected.