Job 16:21

New Century Version

He begs God on behalf of a human as a person begs for his friend.

Cross References

Job 13:22

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

Job 13:3

But I want to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God.

Job 16:20

The one who speaks for me is my friend. My eyes pour out tears to God.

Job 16:22

“Only a few years will pass before I go on the journey of no return.

Job 31:35

(“How I wish a court would hear my case! Here I sign my name to show I have told the truth. Now let the Almighty answer me; let the one who accuses me write it down.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatever happens was planned long ago. Everyone knows what people are like. No one can argue with God, who is stronger than anyone.

Isaiah 45:9

“How terrible it will be for those who argue with the God who made them. They are like a piece of broken pottery among many pieces. The clay does not ask the potter, ‘What are you doing?’ The thing that is made doesn’t say to its maker, ‘You have no hands.’

Romans 9:20

You are only human, and human beings have no right to question God. An object should not ask the person who made it, “Why did you make me like this?”