Parallel Verses
King James 2000
My friends scorn me: but my eye pours 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,
Darby Translation
My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God.
Julia Smith Translation
My friends mocking me: to God mine eye wept.
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 is in heaven, and my record is on high. 20 My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears unto God. 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!
Names
Cross References
Job 12:4-5
I am as one mocked of his neighbor, who calls upon God, and he answers him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
Job 16:4
I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's place, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.
Job 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue in their provocation?
Psalm 109:4
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
Psalm 142:2
I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble.
Hosea 12:4-5
Yea, he had power over 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
And they were filled with fury; and discussed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
Hebrews 5:7
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;