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
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
21
As a man with his neighbor!
Names
Cross References
Job 31:35
Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!
Job 9:34-35
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.
Job 13:3
But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
Job 13:22
Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to 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
And the LORDsaid to Job:
Ecclesiastes 6:10
Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he.
Isaiah 45:9
"Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?' or 'Your work has no handles'?
Romans 9:20
But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?"