Devine Scripture

Job 16:20

Job chapter 16 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

KJV

King James Version · 1611

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

Context

v.19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that voucheth for me is on high.

v.20This passage

v.21That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 16:4

    I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.

  • Hebrews 5:7

    Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

  • Luke 6:11

    But they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.

  • Job 12:4

    I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.

  • Psalms 142:2

    I pour out my complaint before him; I show before him my trouble.

  • Psalms 109:4

    For my love they are my adversaries: But Igive myself untoprayer.