Job 16:20
My interpreter [is] my friend, || My eye has dropped to God;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
In Context
19Also, now, behold, my witness [is] in the heavens, || And my testifier in the high places.
21And He reasons for a man with God, || As a son of man for his friend.
Cross References
2 Kings 20:3“Ah, now, O YHWH, please remember how I have habitually walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and I have done that which [is] good in Your eyes”; and Hezekiah weeps [with] a great weeping.
Job 16:4I also, like you, might speak, || If your soul were in my soul’s stead. I might join against you with words, || And nod at you with my head.
Job 23:3O that I had known—and I find Him, || I come to His seat,
Psalms 142:2I pour forth my meditation before Him, || I declare my distress before Him.
Luke 6:11and they were filled with madness, and were speaking with one another what they might 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 →