All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

Wesley's Notes

19:19 Inward - My intimates and confidants, to whom I imparted all my thoughts and counsels.

King James Translators' Notes

my...: Heb. the men of my secret

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

19. inward-confidential; literally, "men of my secret"-to whom I entrusted my most intimate confidence.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

19:8-22 How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall not feel it hereafter. It is a very common mistake to think that those whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies. Every creature is that to us which God makes it to be; yet this does not excuse Job's relations and friends. How uncertain is the friendship of men! but if God be our Friend, he will not fail us in time of need. What little reason we have to indulge the body, which, after all our care, is consumed by diseases it has in itself. Job recommends himself to the compassion of his friends, and justly blames their harshness. It is very distressing to one who loves God, to be bereaved at once of outward comfort and of inward consolation; yet if this, and more, come upon a believer, it does not weaken the proof of his being a child of God and heir of glory.