Job 16:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ that he would maintain the right of a mortal with God, as one does for a neighbor.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.

Job 16:21 Cross References

Job 13:22

Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.

Job 13:3

But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

Job 16:20

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

Job 16:22

For when a few years have come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

Job 31:35

O that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) O that I had the indictment written by my adversary!

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what humans are and that they are not able to dispute with those who are stronger.

Isaiah 45:9

Woe to those who strive with their Maker, earthen vessels with the potter! Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”? or “Your work has no handles”?

Romans 9:20

But who indeed are you, a human, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”