Job 16:21 - Tree of Life Version

he contends with God on behalf of man as one pleads for a friend.

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King 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.

Job 16:21 Tagairtí Cros

Job 13:22

Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and You respond to me.

Job 13:3

Still, I desire to speak to Shaddai and to argue my case with God.

Job 16:20

My intercessor is my friend; as my eyes pour out tears to God;

Job 16:22

“For the number of years will come to pass, and then I will go the way of no return.

Job 31:35

O, that I had someone to hear me! Look, here is my signature, let Shaddai answer me, let the accuser write the indictment!

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatever exists has already been named, and it has been made known what humanity is. But man cannot contend with the One who is mightier than he.

Isaiah 45:9

Oy , to one who quarrels with his Maker, like a pot among the pots of the earth! Shall the clay say to the potter, “What have you made?” Or does your work say, “It has no handles”?

Romans 9:20

But who in the world are you, O man, who talks back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”