Job 16:21
And I would, that a man were deemed so with God, as the son of man is deemed with his fellow. (And I wish, that there was someone to plead with God for me, like the son of a man who pleadeth for his fellow, or for his friend.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Oh that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
In Context
20O! my friends, full of words; mine eye droppeth (out tears) to God.
Cross References
Job 9:34Do he away his rod from me, and his dread make not me afeared. (Let him take his rod away from me, and let not the fear of him, or his terrors, make me afraid.)
Job 13:22Call thou me, and I shall answer thee; either certainly I shall speak, and (then) thou shalt answer me.
Job 31:35who giveth then an helper to me, that Almighty God hear my desire? that he that deemeth, write a book, ( then who shall be my helper? my only desire is that Almighty God would listen to me. And if my adversary hath written a book against me,)
Ecclesiastes 6:10The name of him that shall come, is called now, and it is known, that he is a man, and he may not strive in doom against a stronger than himself. (The name of what is to come is known and understood, and it is also known, that one cannot argue in court against someone stronger than oneself.)
Romans 9:20O! man, who art thou, that answerest to God? Whether a made thing saith to him that made it, What hast thou made me so? (or Why hast thou made me so?)
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 →