Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
My friends mocking me: to God mine eye wept.
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,
Darby Translation
My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God.
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 Also now, behold, my witness in the heavens, and my testimony in the heights. 20 My friends mocking me: to God mine eye wept. 21 Shall he judge for a man with God? and the son of man for his neighbor?
Names
Cross References
Job 12:4-5
I shall be he laughing at his neighbor, calling to God, and he will answer him: the just blameless one being laughed at
Job 16:4
Also I will speak as you: if it is your soul instead of my soul, I will join together with words against you, and shake my head against you upon it
Job 17:2
If not mockings with me? and shall not mine eye lodge in their bitterness?
Psalm 109:4
For my love they will oppose me: and I for prayer.
Psalm 142:2
I will pour out before him my complaint; I will announce my straits before him.
Hosea 12:4-5
And he will be a leader to the messenger, and he will prevail: he wept, and he will make supplication to him: in the house of God he will find him, and there he will speak with him.
Luke 6:11-12
And they were filled with want,of understanding; and they discoursed with one another What they may do to Jesus.
Hebrews 5:7
Who in the days of his flesh, both prayers and supplications to him able to save him from death, with strong crying and tears, having offered, and listened to by means of circumspection;