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The Book of Job, Chapter 16, Verse 21

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My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.
King James Version
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbour!
American Standard Version
That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!
New English Translation
and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.
World English Bible
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
22
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
2
[Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?
4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
5
He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.
8
Upright [men] shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.