Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to 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.
King James 2000
My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears unto 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 So now look, my witness [is] in the heavens, and he [who] vouches for me [is] in the heights. 20 My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, 21 and it argues for a mortal with God, and [as] {a human} for his friend.
Names
Cross References
Job 12:4-5
I am a laughingstock to my friends: '[He] calls on God, and he answers him.' A righteous, blameless man [is] a laughingstock.
Job 16:4
I myself also could talk as you, if {you were in my place}; I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head.
Job 17:2
{Surely} mockery [is] with me, and my eye {rests} on their provocation.
Psalm 109:4
In return for my love they accuse me, though I [am in] prayer.
Psalm 142:2
I pour out my complaint before him; I declare my trouble before him.
Hosea 12:4-5
He struggled with [the] angel and prevailed; he pleaded for his mercy. He met him at Bethel, and there he spoke with him.
Luke 6:11-12
But they were filled with fury, and began discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.
Hebrews 5:7
who in the days of his flesh offered up both prayers and supplications, with loud crying and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard as a result of his reverence.