Job 16:21

Modern English Version

Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!

Cross References

Job 13:22

Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and You answer 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; my eyes pour out tears unto God.

Job 16:22

“For when a few years have passed, I will go the way from which I will not return.

Job 31:35

“Oh, that one would hear me! Behold, my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, and that the One who contends against me had written a book!

Ecclesiastes 6:10

What has already been has been named and determined, and it is already designated what will happen to a person; he cannot contend with Him who is stronger than he.

Isaiah 45:9

Woe to him who strives with his maker, the potsherd with the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to the potter, “What are you making?” Or the thing you are making say, “He has no hands”?

Romans 9:20

Rather, O man, who are you to answer back to God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”