Parallel Verses
NET Bible
My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour 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.
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.
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 my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high. 20 My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God; 21 and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.
Names
Cross References
Job 12:4-5
I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered -- a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!
Job 16:4
I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could pile up words against you and I could shake my head at you.
Job 17:2
Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
Psalm 109:4
They repay my love with accusations, but I continue to pray.
Psalm 142:2
I pour out my lament before him; I tell him about my troubles.
Hosea 12:4-5
He struggled with an angel and prevailed; he wept and begged for his favor. He found God at Bethel, and there he spoke with him!
Luke 6:11-12
But they were filled with mindless rage and began debating with one another what they would do to Jesus.
Hebrews 5:7
During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.