Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My friends laugh me to scorn, but 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,
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.
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.
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 For lo, my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth me, is above in the height. 20 My friends laugh me to scorn, but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. 21 Though a body might plead with God, as one man doth with another,
Names
Cross References
Job 12:4-5
Thus, he that calleth upon God, and whom God heareth, is mocked of his neighbour; the godly and innocent man is laughed to scorn.
Job 16:4
I could speak as ye do also. But would God, that your soul were in my soul's stead: then should I heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.
Job 17:2
Froward men are with me, and mine eye must continue in the bitterness of them.
Psalm 109:4
For the love that I had unto them, they take now my contrary part; but I give myself unto prayer.
Psalm 142:2
I pour out my complaint before him, and show him of my trouble.
Hosea 12:4-5
He strove with the angel, and gat the victory: so that he prayed and desired him. He found him at Bethel, and there he talked with us.
Luke 6:11-12
And they were filled full of madness, and communed one with another, what they might do to Jesus.
Hebrews 5:7
Which in the days of his flesh, did offer up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death: and was also heard, because of his godliness.