Job 16:21
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.
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
- Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
- KJV
- O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
- WEB
- that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
- ASV
- That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!
- DARBY
- Oh that there were arbitration for a man with God, as a son of man for his friend!
- BLB
- And he reasons for a man with God, and [as] a son of man for his friend.
- ÅB
- at han må la mannen få rett i hans strid med Gud og menneskebarnet rett mot hans neste;
- OTB
- at en kunne tale for en mann med Gud
som en taler for en venn. - B1930
- at han må la mannen få rett i hans strid med Gud og menneskebarnet rett mot hans næste;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ecclesiastes 6:10
That 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.
Read in contextIsaiah 45:9
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Read in contextRomans 9:20
Nay 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?
Read in contextJob 40:1–5
Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,
Read in contextJob 31:35
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Read in contextJob 13:22
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Read in contextJob 9:34–35
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
Read in contextJob 13:3
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
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