Job 16:21 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

But my witness will plead for a human in front of God. The Son of Man will plead for his friend!(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

ASV:

That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!

BBE:

So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.

DBY:

Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!

ERV:

That he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbour!

JPS:

That He would set aright a man contending with God, as a son of man setteth aright his neighbour!

WBS:

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!

WEB:

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

YLT:

And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.

Job 16:21 Cross References

XREF:

Job 16:20 "My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God.

Job 16:22 "For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

16:21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man {x} [pleadeth] for his neighbour!
(x) Thus by his great torments he is carried away, and breaks out into passions, and speaks unadvisedly, as though God would intreat man more gently, seeing he has only a short time here to live.

MHC:

16:17-22 Job's condition was very deplorable; but he had the testimony of his conscience for him, that he never allowed himself in any gross sin. No one was ever more ready to acknowledge sins of infirmity. Eliphaz had charged him with hypocrisy in religion, but he specifies prayer, the great act of religion, and professes that in this he was pure, though not from all infirmity. He had a God to go to, who he doubted not took full notice of all his sorrows. Those who pour out tears before God, though they cannot plead for themselves, by reason of their defects, have a Friend to plead for them, even the Son of man, and on him we must ground all our hopes of acceptance with God. To die, is to go the way whence we shall not return. We must all of us, very certainly, and very shortly, go this journey. Should not then the Saviour be precious to our souls? And ought we not to be ready to obey and to suffer for his sake? If our consciences are sprinkled with his atoning blood, and testify that we are not living in sin or hypocrisy, when we go the way whence we shall not return, it will be a release from prison, and an entrance into everlasting happiness.

CONC:

Arbitration Aright Cause Contending Decision Friend Maintain Neighbor Neighbour O Oh Plead Pleadeth Pleads Reasoneth Setteth

Aright Behalf Cause Contending Decision Friend Maintain Neighbor Neighbour Plead Pleadeth Pleads Right

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