Verse 20
Job 16:20
Noah Webster Bible
20
My friends scorn me: but my eye poureth out tears to God (Elohim).
Original Language Text
hebrew
מְלִיצַ֥/י רֵעָ֑/י אֶל אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַ דָּלְפָ֥ה עֵינִֽ/י
English Translation
My friend, I speak to God; my eyes are dim.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 16 Context
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Then Job answered and said,
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I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
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Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
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I also could speak as ye do : if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against yo...
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But I would strengthen you with my mouth and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief .
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Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
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But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
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And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me : and my leanness rising up in...
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He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpeneth h...
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They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they ha...
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God (Elohim) hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pie...
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His archers encompass me; he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall u...
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He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
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My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids are the shades of death;
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Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure.
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O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
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Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
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My friends scorn me: but my eye poureth out tears to God (Elohim).
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O that one might plead for a man with God (Elohim), as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!
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When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
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