Job 16:20 {21}
Good News Translation
My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God.

New Revised Standard Version
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

Contemporary English Version
My friends have rejected me, but God is the one I beg

New American Bible
My friends it is who wrong me; before God my eyes shed tears,

Douay-Rheims Bible
My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.

scorn me.

Job 16:4 I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.

Job 12:4,5 He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn. . . .

Job 17:2 I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.

poureth

Psalm 109:4 Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.

Psalm 142:2 In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my trouble:

Hosea 12:4,5 And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us. . . .

Luke 6:11,12 And they were filled with madness: and they talked one with another, what they might do to Jesus. . . .

Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

Context
Job Decries his Comforters
19For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high. 20My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.21And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!…
Cross References
Job 16:7
But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.

Job 16:16
My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.

Job 16:21
And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!

Job 17:7
My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.

Job 19:13
He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.

Job 16:19
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