Job 16:20
My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
In Context
19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
Cross References
2 Kings 20:3“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Job 16:4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
Job 23:3If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.
Psalms 142:2I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.
Luke 6:11But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss 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 →