Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God; New Living Translation My friends scorn me, but I pour out my tears to God. English Standard Version My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, Berean Standard Bible My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God. King James Bible My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. New King James Version My friends scorn me; My eyes pour out tears to God. New American Standard Bible “My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God, NASB 1995 “My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God. NASB 1977 “My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God. Legacy Standard Bible My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God. Amplified Bible “My friends are scoffers [who ridicule]; My eye pours out tears to God. Christian Standard Bible My friends scoff at me as I weep before God. Holman Christian Standard Bible My friends scoff at me as I weep before God. American Standard Version My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God, Aramaic Bible in Plain English My brothers and my friends, my eyes overflow to God! Brenton Septuagint Translation Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him. Contemporary English Version My friends have rejected me, but God is the one I beg Douay-Rheims Bible My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God. English Revised Version My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God; GOD'S WORD® Translation the spokesman for my thoughts. My eyes drip [with tears] to God Good News Translation My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God. International Standard Version My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God, JPS Tanakh 1917 Mine inward thoughts are my intercessors, Mine eye poureth out tears unto God; Literal Standard Version My interpreter [is] my friend, | My eye has dropped to God; Majority Standard Bible My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God. New American Bible My friends it is who wrong me; before God my eyes shed tears, NET Bible My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God; New Revised Standard Version My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, New Heart English Bible My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God, Webster's Bible Translation My friends scorn me: but my eye poureth out tears to God. World English Bible My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God, Young's Literal Translation My interpreter is my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped: Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job Decries his Comforters…19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high. 20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God. 21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!… Cross References Job 16:7 Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family. Job 16:16 My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes; Job 16:21 Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor! Job 17:7 My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow. Job 19:13 He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me. Treasury of Scripture My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears to God. scorn me. 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. 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… Job 17:2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? poureth Psalm 109:4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. Psalm 142:2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. Hosea 12:4,5 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us; … Jump to Previous Eye Eyes Friend Friends Intercessor Intercessors Inward Mockers Pour Poureth Pours Scoff Scoffers Scorn Sport Tears Thoughts Weeping WeepsJump to Next Eye Eyes Friend Friends Intercessor Intercessors Inward Mockers Pour Poureth Pours Scoff Scoffers Scorn Sport Tears Thoughts Weeping WeepsJob 16 1. Job reproves his friends for unmercifulness17. He maintains his innocence (20) My friends scorn me.--Or, as an apostrophe, "Ye my scorners who profess and ought to be my friends: mine eye poureth out tears unto God that He would maintain the right of man with God, and of the son of man with his neighbour;" or, "that one might plead for man with God as the son of man pleadeth for his neighbour"--this is what he has already longed for in Job 9:33.Verse 20. - My friends scorn me; literally, my scorners are my companions; i.e. I have to live with those who scorn me (comp. ch. 30:1-13). But mine eye poureth out tears unto God. It is not to his "friends" or "companions," or "comforters," or any human aid, that Job turns in his distress. God alone is his Refuge. Forced by his woes to pass his time in weeping and mourning (see ver. 16), it is to God that his heart turns, to God that he "pours out his tears." Hardly as he thinks God to have used him, bitterly as he sometimes ventures to complain, yet the idea never crosses him of looking for help or sympathy to any other quarter, of having recourse to any other support or stay. "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him" (Job 13:15), expresses the deepest feeling of his heart, the firmost principle of his nature. Nothing overrides it. Even "out of the depths" his soul cries to the Lord (see Psalm 130:1). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew My friendsרֵעָ֑י (rê·‘āy) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 7453: Friend, companion, fellow are my scoffers מְלִיצַ֥י (mə·lî·ṣay) Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 3887: Ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker as my eyes עֵינִֽי׃ (‘ê·nî) Noun - common singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain pour out [tears] דָּלְפָ֥ה (dā·lə·p̄āh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 1811: To drip, to weep to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to God. אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַ (’ĕ·lō·w·ha) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 433: God -- a deity, the Deity Links Job 16:20 NIVJob 16:20 NLT Job 16:20 ESV Job 16:20 NASB Job 16:20 KJV Job 16:20 BibleApps.com Job 16:20 Biblia Paralela Job 16:20 Chinese Bible Job 16:20 French Bible Job 16:20 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 16:20 My friends scoff at me (Jb) |
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