Job 16:20
My friends scorn me, but my eyes pour out tears to God.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
In Context
19Look, right now my witness is in heaven; the one who speaks for me is on high.
21I want my witness to speak for me with God as someone does for their friend.
Cross References
2 Kings 20:3“Please remember Lord how I have followed you faithfully with all my heart. I have done what is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah cried and cried.
Job 16:4I could talk like you do if you were in my place, stringing words together to criticize you, ridiculing you with a toss of my head.
Job 23:3If only I knew where I could find him so I could go to where he sits in judgment.
Psalms 142:2I pour out my complaints before him; I tell him what's troubling me.
Luke 6:11But they flew into a rage, and began to discuss what they could 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 →