Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintances into darkness - literally, 'mine acquaintances ... darkness;' i:e., instead of acquaintances, there is only a gloomy blank, the darkness of Hades. The parallelism is thus better than in Hengstenberg's view, 'mine acquaintances (are) the place of darkness;' for which he quotes Job 17:14.