Job Chapter 16 verse 20 Holy Bible
My friends scoff at me: `But' mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
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My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
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My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God.
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My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
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My friends scorn me: but my eye poureth out tears to God.
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My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
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My interpreter `is' my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - My friends scorn me; literally, my scorners are my companions; i.e. I have to live with those who scorn me (comp. ch. 30:1-13). But mine eye poureth out tears unto God. It is not to his "friends" or "companions," or "comforters," or any human aid, that Job turns in his distress. God alone is his Refuge. Forced by his woes to pass his time in weeping and mourning (see ver. 16), it is to God that his heart turns, to God that he "pours out his tears." Hardly as he thinks God to have used him, bitterly as he sometimes ventures to complain, yet the idea never crosses him of looking for help or sympathy to any other quarter, of having recourse to any other support or stay. "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him" (Job 13:15), expresses the deepest feeling of his heart, the firmost principle of his nature. Nothing overrides it. Even "out of the depths" his soul cries to the Lord (see Psalm 130:1).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) My friends scorn me.--Or, as an apostrophe, "Ye my scorners who profess and ought to be my friends: mine eye poureth out tears unto God that He would maintain the right of man with God, and of the son of man with his neighbour;" or, "that one might plead for man with God as the son of man pleadeth for his neighbour"--this is what he has already longed for in Job 9:33.
