Job 16:21
My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 he that knoweth my conscience is on high.
22And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!
Cross References
Job 9:34Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me.
Job 13:22Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me.
Job 31:35Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,
Ecclesiastes 6:10He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.
Romans 9:20O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?
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 →