Job 19:14 — ExegesisTAB

The verse is a tight poetic bicola built on parallel predications: chadlu {חָדְלוּ | ḥāḏlû} ‘they ceased’ states a breakdown of support, followed by shekhekhuni {שְׁכֵחוּנִי | šəḵēḥûnî} ‘they forgot me’, intensifying the rupture from absence to active neglect. The first colon is verb-initial (V + S), placing emphasis on the sudden end; the second colon coordinates a second subject with וּ {וּ | û} ‘and’, then completes the line with the verb plus object suffix “me,” keeping Job’s isolation as the closing focus. The two subject terms move outward socially—from qerovai {קְרוֹבָי | qerōḇay} ‘my close ones’ to u-meyuddaay {וּמְיֻדָּעַי | ûməyuddāʿay} ‘those known to me’—creating a widening circle of abandonment. English renders the same parallelism with two coordinated clauses, preserving the progression from relational failure to being forgotten.