Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Though a body might plead with God, as one man doth with another,
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!
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 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, 22 yet the number of my years are come - and I must go the way from whence I shall not turn again.
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Cross References
Job 31:35
O that I had one which would hear me. Lo, this is my cause: Let the almighty give me answer, and let him that is my contrary party, sue me with libel.
Job 9:34-35
Let him take his rod away from me; yea, let him make me no more afraid of him,
Job 13:3
Nevertheless I am purposed to talk with the almighty, and my desire is to commune with God.
Job 13:22
And then send for me to the law, that I may answer for myself: or else, let me speak, and give thou the answer.
Job 23:3-7
O that I might see him and find him: O that I might come before his seat,
Job 40:1-5
Moreover, God spake unto Job, and said,
Ecclesiastes 6:10
The thing that hath been is named already, and known - that it is man himself: neither may he go to law with him that is mightier than he.
Isaiah 45:9
Woe be unto him that chideth with his maker, the potsherd with the potter. Sayeth the clay to the potter, "What makest thou?" or "Thy work serveth for nothing?"
Romans 9:20
But O man what art thou, which disputest with God? Shall the work say to the workman, "Why hast thou made me on this fashion?"