Job 16:20

Everything Was Going Well

¹⁹ “Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,
And my advocate is on high.
²⁰ “My friends are my scoffers;
My eye weeps to God.
²¹ “O that a man might plead with God
As a man with his neighbor!

Before God

O God

Job

Job 12:4-5

“I am a joke to my friends,
The one who called on God and He answered him;
The just and blameless man is a joke.

Job 16:4

“I too could speak like you,
If I were in your place.
I could compose words against you
And shake my head at you.

Job 17:2

“Surely mockers are with me,
And my eye gazes on their provocation.

Psalm 109:4

In return for my love they act as my accusers;
But I am in prayer.

Psalm 142:2

I pour out my complaint before Him;
I declare my trouble before Him.

Hosea 12:4-5

Yes, he wrestled with the angel and prevailed;
He wept and sought His favor.
He found Him at Bethel
And there He spoke with us,

Luke 6:11-12

But they themselves were filled with rage, and discussed together what they might do to Jesus.

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety.