20 My friends (A)scorn me;
    my eye pours out tears to God,
21 that he would (B)argue the case of a man with God,
    as[a] a son of man does with his neighbor.
22 For when a few years have come
    I shall go the way (C)from which I shall not return.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Job 16:21 Hebrew and

20 My friends scorn me;
My eyes pour out tears to God.
21 (A)Oh, that one might plead for a man with God,
As a man pleads for his [a]neighbor!
22 For when a few years are finished,
I shall (B)go the way of no return.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Job 16:21 friend

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.

Read full chapter