Job 16:21
My friends are full of words; my eye rains tears upon God.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Oh that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
In Context
20For behold, my witness is in heaven, and my confidante is on high.
Cross References
Job 9:34Let him take his staff away from me, and let not the fear of him terrify me.
Job 13:22Call me, and I will answer you, or else I will speak, and you can answer me.
Job 31:35then, would he grant me a hearing, so that the Almighty would listen to my desire, and he who judges would himself write a book,
Ecclesiastes 6:10Whoever shall be in the future, his name has already been called. And it is known that he is a man and that he is not able to contend in judgment against one who is stronger than himself.
Romans 9:20O man, who are you to question God? How can the thing that has been formed say to the One who formed him: “Why have you made me this way?”
Matthew Henry on Job 16:18-22
Testimony of Conscience; Job's Comfort in Conscious Integrity. ( b. c. 1520.) 17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. 18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. 19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. 20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! 22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. Job's… Read the whole commentary →