Job 16:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ My friends scorn me, but my eye pours out tears to God.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²⁰ my go-between, my friend. While my eyes drip tears to God,

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ For behold, my witness is in heaven, and my confidante is on high.

Job 16:20 Cross References

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.

Psalm 142:2

I pour out my complaint before him; I tell my trouble before him.

Psalm 109:4

In return for my love they accuse me, even while I make prayer for them.

Job 17:2

Surely there are mockers around me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.

Job 16:4

I also could talk as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.

Job 16:7

Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.

Job 16:16

My face is red with weeping, and deep darkness is on my eyelids,

Job 16:21

that he would maintain the right of a mortal with God, as one does for a neighbor.

Job 17:7

My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.

Job 19:13

“He has put my family far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

2 Kings 20:3

“Remember now, O Lord, I implore you, how I have walked before you in faithfulness with a whole heart and have done what is good in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Job 23:3

Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his dwelling!