Job 16:20 · KJV
“My friends scorn me: {but} mine eye poureth out {tears} unto God. {scorn me: Heb. are my scorners}”
— Job 16:20
Also now, behold, my witness {is} in heaven, and my record {is} on high. {on high: Heb. in the high places}
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man {pleadeth} for his neighbour! {neighbour: or, friend}
Job 16 — Context
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
19Also now, behold, my witness {is} in heaven, and my record {is} on high. {on high: Heb. in the high places}
20My friends scorn me: {but} mine eye poureth out {tears} unto God. {scorn me: Heb. are my scorners}
21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man {pleadeth} for his neighbour! {neighbour: or, friend}
22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way {whence} I shall not return. {a few...: Heb. years of number}
Cross References
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; {in that...: or, for his piety}
Psalms 142:2
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Luke 6:11-12
And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
Job 17:2
{Are there} not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? {continue: Heb. lodge}
Psalms 109:4
For my love they are my adversaries: but I {give myself unto} prayer.
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.
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;