OET interlinear JOB 16:20

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: translate-plural

מְלִיצַ֥⁠י רֵעָ֑⁠י

scorn,me friends,my

This could mean: (1) that Job has a single individual in mind here, the one he called his “witness” and “advocate” in the previous verse. While the terms intercessors and friends are plural, it seems Job could be using plural forms to indicate an indefinite individual. Your language may use plural forms in the same way. If not, you could express the meaning in another way. Alternate translation: “There is a certain intercessor who is my friend” (2) that Job is saying that by contrast with the way this “witness” and “advocate” will take his side, his friends have been scoffing at him. The word translated intercessors can also mean “scoffers” (although Job uses it again in 33:23 to mean “intercessor”). Alternate translation: “My friends are scoffing at me”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

אֶל־אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַ דָּלְפָ֥ה עֵינִֽ⁠י

to/towards god pours_out_tears eye,my

Job is using one part of himself, his eye, to mean all of him in the act of weeping. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “I am pleading tearfully to God for mercy”