Job 16:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatsoever hath been, the name thereof was given long ago, and it is known that it is man: neither can 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 didst thou make me thus?

Isaiah 45:9

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among 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 31:35

Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me;) And that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!

Job 13:22

Then call thou, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and answer thou me

Job 13:3

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.

Job 16:20

My friends scorn me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God;

Job 16:22

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.