Even his nearest relations treat him as a stranger and a foreigner. Cp. Psalms 38:11; Job 19:13 ff.; Jeremiah 12:6.

my mother's children The sons of my own mother expresses a closer degree of relationship than my brethren, the children of the same mother being always regarded as bound to one another by a closer tie than those of the same father by different mothers. Cp. Psalms 50:20.

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