A poor man is shunned by all his relatives - how much more do his friends avoid him! Though he pursues them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends

It is my last wish to cross over to that village and console my friends and relatives.

Even though he's older and frail now, the victim has a lot of relatives and friends who deserve some sort of closure on this. He's still very capable of getting around.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.