You cannot use next() in this scenario, if you look at the documentation it says:
Next() Get the immediately following sibling of each element in the set of matched elements. If a selector is provided, it retrieves the next sibling that matches the selector.
so if the second DIV was in the same TD then you could code:
// Won't work in your case
$(obj).next().filter('.class');
$(obj).parents('table').find('.class')