My brethren.

Job 19:19
All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

Psalm 38:11
My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.

Psalm 41:9
Even my close friend, whom I trusted, he who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

Psalm 55:12-14
For it is not an enemy who insults me--then I could endure; it is not a foe who rises against me--from him I could hide. . . .

Psalm 88:18
You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.

Jeremiah 9:4, 5
"Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander. . . .

Jeremiah 30:14
All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and numerous sins.

Micah 7:5, 6
Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms. . . .

John 13:18
I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: 'The one who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.'

John 16:32
"Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

as the stream.

Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me--water that is not there.

Jude 1:12
These men are the hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.