Job 16:20
My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
In Context
19For lo, now my witnesse is in the heauen, and my record is on hie.
21Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!
Cross References
2 Kings 20:3I beseech thee, O Lord, remember nowe, howe I haue walked before thee in trueth and with a perfite heart, and haue done that which is good in thy sight: and Hezekiah wept sore.
Job 16:4I could also speake as yee doe: (but woulde God your soule were in my soules stead) I could keepe you company in speaking, and could shake mine head at you,
Job 23:3Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place.
Psalms 142:2I powred out my meditation before him, and declared mine affliction in his presence.
Luke 6:11Then they were filled full of madnes, and communed one with another, what they might doe to Iesus.
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 →