Job 16:20

My three friends scorn/ridicule me, but my eyes are full of tears while I cry out to God.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

In Context

19But even now, I know that there is someone in heaven who will testify for me, and he will say that what I have done is right.

21I pray that the one who knows what I have done would come to plead with God for me like people plead for their friends.

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Cross References

2 Kings 20:3“Yahweh, do not forget that I have always served you faithfully, and I have done things that pleased you.” Then Hezekiah started to cry loudly.

Job 16:4If it were you three and not I who were suffering, I could say the things that you are saying; I could make great speeches to criticize/condemn you, and I could shake my head at you to ridicule you.

Job 23:3I ◄wish that I knew/want to know► where I could meet/talk with him, so that I could go to the place where he lives.

Psalms 142:2I am bringing to you all my problems; I am telling you all my troubles/difficulties.

Luke 6:11But the men who taught the Jewish laws and the Pharisees were very angry, and they discussed with one another what they could do to get rid of 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 →

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