Job 16:20-21

GOD’S WORD Translation

²⁰the spokesman for my thoughts.^[a]
My eyes drip ⌞with tears⌟ to God
²²because in a few short years I will take the path of no return.^[b]
²¹But my witness will plead for a human in front of God.
The Son of Man will plead for his friend!

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Footnotes

16:20 Or “my friends mock me.”
16:22 Verse 22 has been placed before verse 21 to express the complex Hebrew sentence structure more clearly in English.