KJV King James Version
My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Job 16:20
My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
WEB World English Bible
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
ASV American Standard Version
My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
My interpreter is my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:
Surrounding context — Job 16
17 Not for [any] injustice in mine hands: also my prayer [is] pure.
18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
19 Also now, behold, my witness [is] in heaven, and my record [is] on high.
20 My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.
21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbour!
22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
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Hebrews 5:7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;Psalm 142:2I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.Job 16:4I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.Job 17:2[Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?Job 12:4-5I am [as] one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright [man is] laughed to scorn.Luke 6:11-12And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.Psalm 109:4For my love they are my adversaries: but I [give myself unto] prayer.Hosea 12:4-5Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him [in] Bethel, and there he spake with us;
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