Job 16:20
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
King James Version
In Context
19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
21Oh that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
Cross References
2 Kings 20:3I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
Job 16:4I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Job 23:3Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Psalms 142:2I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Luke 6:11And they were filled with madness; and communed one with 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 →