Job 16:21
I want my witness to speak for me with God as someone does for their friend.
Free Bible 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
20My friends scorn me, but my eyes pour out tears to God.
22For in a few short years I shall go down that road from which I shall not return.”
Cross References
Job 9:34I wish God would stop beating me with his rod and terrifying me!
Job 13:22Then call, and I will answer. Or let me speak, and then answer me.
Job 31:35Why won't anyone listen to what I'm saying! I'm signing my name to endorse everything I've said. Let the Almighty answer me. Let my accuser write down what he is charging me with.
Ecclesiastes 6:10Everything that exists has already been described. Everyone knows what people are like, and that you can't win an argument with a superior.
Romans 9:20That's no way to speak, for who are you—a mere mortal—to contradict God? Can something that is created say to its creator, “Why did you make me like this?”
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 →