Job 16:21
I pray that the one who knows what I have done would come to plead with God for me like people plead for their friends.
Translation for Translators
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 three friends scorn/ridicule me, but my eyes are full of tears while I cry out to God.
Cross References
Job 9:34I wish/desire that he would stop punishing [MTY] me, and that he would not continue to terrify me.
Job 13:22You speak first, and then I will reply; or allow me to speak first, and then you reply.
Job 31:35“I wish/desire that there was someone who would hear what I am saying! I solemnly declare that all that I have said is true. I wish that those who oppose me would write down on a scroll the evil things that they say that I did.
Ecclesiastes 6:10All the things that exist on the earth have been given names. And everyone knows what people are like, so it is useless to argue with someone (OR, with God) who is stronger than we are.
Romans 9:20I would reply that since you (sg) are just a human being, ◄you do not have any right at all to criticize God!/ who are you to say that what God does is wrong?► [RHQ] As a potter is the one who creates a clay pot, God is the one who created you. ◄A clay pot [MET] certainly would not have a right to criticize the potter by asking [PRS], “Why did you (sg) make me this way?”/Would a clay pot have a right to criticize the potter by asking [PRS], “Why did you (sg) make me this way?”► [RHQ]
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 →