Job 16:20
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.
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
- KJV
- My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
- WEB
- My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
- ASV
- My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
- DARBY
- My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
- BLB
- My friends are mocking me; my eye pours out to God.
- ÅB
- Stadig spotter mine venner meg; mot Gud skuer gråtende mitt øye,
- OTB
- Mine venner er mine spottere;
mine øyne utøser tårer til Gud, - B1930
- Stadig spotter mine venner mig; mot Gud skuer gråtende mitt øie,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 5:7
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
Read in contextPsalms 142:2
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Read in contextJob 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Read in contextJob 12:4–5
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
Read in contextPsalms 109:4
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
Read in contextLuke 6:11–12
And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
Read in contextJob 16:4
I 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.
Read in contextHosea 12:4–5
Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us;
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