Job 16:20
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Job 16:20 in other translations
| BSB | My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God. |
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| 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, |
| YLT | My interpreter is my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped: |
| DARBY | My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto God. |
| BBE | My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping, |
| Webster | My friends scorn me: but my eye poureth out tears to God. |
What does Job 16:20 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 16:17-22
Job's condition was very deplorable; but he had the testimony of his conscience for him, that he never allowed himself in any gross sin. No one was ever more ready to acknowledge sins of infirmity. Eliphaz had charged him with hypocrisy in religion, but he specifies prayer, the great act of religion, and professes that in this he was pure, though not from all infirmity. He had a God to go to, who he doubted not took…
Job 16:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 16:20
- 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;
- Psalms 142:2
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
- Job 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
- Job 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. He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
- Psalms 109:4
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
- Luke 6:11-12
And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus. And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
- Job 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.
- Hosea 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; Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is his memorial.
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Context
- Job 16:19
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
- Job 16:20
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
- Job 16:21
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
Job 16:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Disputadores son mis amigos: mas á Dios destilarán mis ojos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mes amis se moquent de moi… vers ✝Dieu pleurent mes yeux. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Meine Freunde sind meine Spötter: zu Gott tränt mein Auge, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | ecce enim in cælo testis meus, et conscius meus in excelsis. |