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Job 16:20

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

KJV

ecce enim in cælo testis meus, et conscius meus in excelsis.

Vulgate

καὶ νῦν ἰδοὺ ἐν οὐρανοῖς ὁ μάρτυς μου, ὁ δὲ συνίστωρ μου ἐν ὑψίστοις.

LXX

My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

ASV

מְלִיצַ֥/י רֵעָ֑/י אֶל אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַ דָּלְפָ֥ה עֵינִֽ/י

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֱל֣וֹהַּ
'lvh
noun · 60×
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
הוּ
hv
noun · 186×
יִדְלֹ֥ף
ydlp
verb · 3×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×
לֵ֭ץ
lts
verb · 27×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Heb 5:7 — Who 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;
  • Hos 12:4 — Yea, 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;
  • Job 12:4 — I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
  • Job 16:4 — I 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 17:2 — Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
  • Job 21:3 — Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
  • Luke 6:11 — And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
  • Ps 6:6 — I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
  • Ps 39:12 — Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
  • Ps 56:8 — Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
  • Ps 109:4 — For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
  • Ps 119:22 — Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
  • Ps 142:2 — I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.