Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Holman Bible
as I weep before God.
International Standard Version
My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God,
A Conservative Version
My friends scoff at me. My eye pours out tears to God
American Standard Version
My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
Amplified
“My friends are scoffers [who ridicule];
My eye pours out tears to God.
Bible in Basic English
My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
Julia Smith Translation
My friends mocking me: to God mine eye wept.
King James 2000
My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears unto God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
Modern King James verseion
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My friends laugh me to scorn, but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
NET Bible
My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
New Heart English Bible
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
The Emphasized Bible
And, he that voucheth for me is on high. My friends are, they who scorn me, Unto GOD, hath mine eye shed tears: -
Webster
My friends scorn me: but my eye poureth out tears to God.
World English Bible
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
Youngs Literal Translation
My interpreter is my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:
Interlinear
Luwts
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 16:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Everything Was Going Well
19 Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights. 20 My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God. 21 Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!
Names
Cross References
Job 12:4-5
I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon +God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright man.
Job 16:4
I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;
Job 17:2
Are there not mockers around me? and doth not mine eye abide in their provocation?
Psalm 109:4
For my love they are mine adversaries; but I give myself unto prayer.
Psalm 142:2
I pour out my plaint before him; I shew before him my trouble.
Hosea 12:4-5
Yea, he wrestled with the Angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
Luke 6:11-12
But they were filled with madness, and they spoke together among themselves what they should do to Jesus.
Hebrews 5:7
Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him who was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears; (and having been heard because of his piety;)