Job 16:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²¹ I wish that someone might argue for a man with God just as anyone  would for a friend.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ O that one might plead for a man with God, As a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Oh, that there might be one who would plead for a man with God and that he would maintain his right with Him, as a son of man pleads with or for his neighbor! [I Tim. 2:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²¹ let him plead with God for a human being, like a person pleads for a friend.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ My friends are full of words; my eye rains tears upon God.

Job 16:21 Cross References

Job 13:22

Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you can respond to me.

Job 13:3

Yet I prefer to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.

Job 16:20

My friends scoff at me as I weep before God.

Job 16:22

For only a few years will pass before I go the way of no return.

Job 31:35

If only I had someone to hear my case! Here is my signature; let the Almighty answer me. Let my Opponent compose his indictment.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatever exists was given its name long ago,  , and it is known what mankind is. But he is not able to contend with the one who is stronger than he is.

Isaiah 45:9

‘Woe to the one who argues with his Maker – one clay pot among many. Does clay say to the one forming it, “What are you making? ” Or does your work say, “He has no hands”?

Romans 9:20

On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?  Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this? ’