Job 16:21
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!
Webster Bible
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 friends scorn me: but my eye poureth out tears to God.
22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Cross References
Job 9:34Let him take away his rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
Job 13:22Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Job 31:35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is , that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.
Ecclesiastes 6:10That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
Romans 9:20No, but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? shall the thing formed say to him that formed it , Why hast thou made me thus?
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 →