Job 16:21 · KJV
“O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man {pleadeth} for his neighbour! {neighbour: or, friend}”
— Job 16:21
My friends scorn me: {but} mine eye poureth out {tears} unto God. {scorn me: Heb. are my scorners}
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way {whence} I shall not return. {a few...: Heb. years of number}
Job 16 — Context
Also 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
Ecclesiastes 6:10
That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it {is} man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
Romans 9:20
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed {it}, Why hast thou made me thus? {repliest...: or, answerest again, or, disputest with God?}
Isaiah 45:9
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! {Let} the potsherd {strive} with 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 9:34-35
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
Job 13:22
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Job 40:1-5
Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,
Job 13:3
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Job 31:35
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire {is, that} the Almighty would answer me, and {that} mine adversary had written a book. {my...: or, my sign is that the Almighty will}