20 My friends [a]speak eloquently against me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

21 Oh that a man might [b]plead with God, as man with his neighbor!

22 For the years accounted come, and I shall go the way, whence I shall not return.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Job 16:20 Use painted words instead of true consolation.
  2. Job 16:21 Thus by his great torments he is carried away, and breaketh out into passions, and speaketh unadvisedly, as though God should entreat man more gently, seeing he hath but a short time here to live.

Bible Gateway Recommends