Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
As a man with his neighbor!
King James Version
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
Holman Bible
between a man and God
just as a man pleads for his friend.
International Standard Version
crying for him to arbitrate between this man and God; as a human being does with his fellow neighbor.
A Conservative Version
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbor!
American Standard Version
That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!
Amplified
“Oh, that a man would mediate and plead with God [for me]
Just as a man [mediates and pleads] with his neighbor and friend.
Bible in Basic English
So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
Darby Translation
Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!
Julia Smith Translation
Shall he judge for a man with God? and the son of man for his neighbor?
King James 2000
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!
Lexham Expanded Bible
and it argues for a mortal with God, and [as] {a human} for his friend.
Modern King James verseion
Oh that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Though a body might plead with God, as one man doth with another,
NET Bible
and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.
New Heart English Bible
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor.
The Emphasized Bible
That one might plead, for a man, with GOD, - Even a son of man, for his friend!
Webster
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!
World English Bible
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
Youngs Literal Translation
And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 16:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Everything Was Going Well
20
Those who dispute with me are my friends, but my eyes shall pour out tears unto God.
21
As a man with his neighbor!
Names
Cross References
Job 31:35
Oh that someone would hear me! Behold, my mark is, that the Almighty will testify for me, even though my adversary had written down the charges.
Job 9:34-35
Let him take his tormentor away from me, and his terror will not perturb me.
Job 13:3
But I would speak with the Almighty, and I desired to dispute with God.
Job 13:22
Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Job 23:3-7
Oh, that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
Job 40:1-5
Moreover, the LORD answered Job and said,
Ecclesiastes 6:10
He that is has been named already; and it is known that he is man and that he shall not be able to contend with him that is mightier than he.
Isaiah 45:9
Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What doth thou make; thy work has no form?
Romans 9:20
Rather, O man, who art thou to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?