Job 16:20
My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
In Context
19Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.
21Oh that there were arbitration for a man with God, as a son of man for his friend!
Cross References
2 Kings 20:3Ah! Jehovah, remember, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept much.
Job 16:4I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;
Job 23:3Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come to his seat!
Psalms 142:2I pour out my plaint before him; I shew before him my trouble.
Luke 6:11But *they* were filled with madness, and they spoke together among themselves what they should do to Jesus.
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 →