Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God,
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Holman Bible
as I weep before God.
A Conservative Version
My friends scoff at me. My eye pours out tears to God
American Standard Version
My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
Amplified
“My friends are scoffers [who ridicule];
My eye pours out tears to God.
Bible in Basic English
My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
Darby Translation
My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God.
Julia Smith Translation
My friends mocking me: to God mine eye wept.
King James 2000
My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears unto God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
Modern King James verseion
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My friends laugh me to scorn, but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
NET Bible
My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
New Heart English Bible
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
The Emphasized Bible
And, he that voucheth for me is on high. My friends are, they who scorn me, Unto GOD, hath mine eye shed tears: -
Webster
My friends scorn me: but my eye poureth out tears to God.
World English Bible
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
Youngs Literal Translation
My interpreter is my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:
Interlinear
Luwts
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 16:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Everything Was Going Well
19 Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven, my Advocate is on high. 20 My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God, 21 crying for him to arbitrate between this man and God; as a human being does with his fellow neighbor.
Names
Cross References
Job 12:4-5
"I'm a laughingstock to my friends, someone who called on God. But then he answered this upright and blameless man, and I have become a laughingstock.
Job 16:4
"I could also talk like you if only you were in my place! Then I would put together an argument against you. I would shake my head at you
Job 17:2
Mockers surround me; I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night.
Psalm 109:4
Instead of receiving my love, they accuse me, though I continue in prayer.
Psalm 142:2
I pour out my complaint to him, telling him all of my troubles.
Hosea 12:4-5
He even fought the angel and won; he cried and prayed to him. Then at Bethel he found him, and there he spoke with us
Luke 6:11-12
The others were furious and began to discuss with each other what they could do to Jesus.
Hebrews 5:7
As a mortal man, he offered up prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his devotion to God.