Then call thou, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and answer thou me
Job 16:21 - Revised Version 1885 That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbour! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 O that one might plead for a man with God, As a man pleadeth for his neighbour! Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor! Common English Bible let him plead with God for a human being, like a person pleads for a friend. Catholic Public Domain Version My friends are full of words; my eye rains tears upon God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God. |
Then call thou, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and answer thou me
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
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!
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.
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?
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?