Job 16:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

Job 16:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 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;
Psalms 142:2
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Luke 6:11-12
And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus. …
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.
Psalms 109:4
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-22)

Job’s condition was very deplorable; but had he nothing to support him, nothing to comfort him? Yes, and he here tells us what it was. I. He had the testimony of his conscience for him that he had walked uprightly, and had never allowed himself in any gross sin. None was ever more ready than he to acknowledge his sins of infirmity; but, upon search, he could not charge himself with any enormous cr…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. Hebrew, “are my scorners”; more forcibly, “my mockers--my friends!” A heart-cutting paradox [Umbreit]. God alone remains to whom he can look for attestation of his innocence; plaintively with tearful eye, he supplicates for this.