Devine Scripture

Job 16:21

Job chapter 16 · verse 21 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.20My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

v.21This passage

v.22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Cross references

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

  • Job 13:3

    Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.

  • Job 13:22

    Then call thou, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and answer thou me.

  • Isaiah 45:9

    Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

  • Job 40:1

    Moreover Jehovah answered Job, and said,

  • Ecclesiastes 6:10

    Whatsoever hath been, the name thereof was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him that is mightier than he.

  • Job 9:34

    Let him take his rod away from me, And let not his terror make me afraid: