Verse List for JOB 16:21

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Iyyov (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) May someone plead with God for a man, ⇔ and a son of humanity plead for his friend.

OET-LV And_he _will _argue for_a _man with god and_a _child _of humankind for_companion _of_his.

ULT And he will argue for a man with God, ⇔  and a son of man for his neighbor.

UST My friend will plead with God for me in heaven ⇔  the same way one person pleads for another person here on earth.

BSB & MSB Oh, that a man might plead with God ⇔  as [he] [pleads] with his neighbor!

OEB No OEB JOB book available

WEBBE & WMBB that he would maintain the right of a man with God, ⇔  of a son of man with his neighbour!

NET and he contends with God on behalf of man ⇔ as a man pleads for his friend.

LSV And He reasons for a man with God,
As a son of man for his friend.

FBV I want my witness to speak for me with God as someone does for their friend.

T4T I pray that the one who knows what I have done would come to plead with God for me ⇔  like people plead for their friends.

LEB • and it argues[fn] for a mortal with God,
• and as a human[fn] for his friend.

BBE So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.

Moff that he would plead for man against Himself, ⇔  and vindicate a man against his friends!

JPS That He would set aright a man contending with God, as a son of man setteth aright his neighbour!

ASV That he would maintain the right of a man with God, ⇔ And of a son of man with his neighbor!

DRA My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.

YLT And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.

Drby Oh that there were arbitration for a man with [fn]God, as a son of man for his friend!

RV That he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbour!

SLT Shall he judge for a man with God? and the son of man for his neighbor?

Wbstr O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!

KJB-1769 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour![fn]
(Oh that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth/leads for his neighbour!)

KJB-1611 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his [fn]neighbour.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

Bshps O that a body might pleate with God, as one man doth with an other:
(Oh that a body might pleate with God, as one man doeth/does with another:)

Gnva Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!
(Oh that a man might plead with God, as man with his neighbour!)

Cvdl Though a body might pleate wt God, as one man doth with another,
(Though a body might pleate with God, as one man doeth/does with another,)

Wycl A! my frendis, ful of wordis, myn iye droppith to God.
(A! my friends, full of words, mine eye droppith to God.)

Luth Wenn ein Mann könnte mit GOtt rechten wie ein Menschenkind mit seinem Freunde!
(When a man could with God right as/like a human_child with his friends!)

ClVg Verbosi amici mei: ad Deum stillat oculus meus:[fn]
(Verbosi friends my/mine: to God stillat the_eye mine:)

UHB וְ⁠יוֹכַ֣ח לְ⁠גֶ֣בֶר עִם־אֱל֑וֹהַּ וּֽ⁠בֶן־אָדָ֥ם לְ⁠רֵעֵֽ⁠הוּ׃ ‡

BrLXX Εἴη δὲ ἔλεγχος ἀνδρὶ ἔναντι Κυρίου, καὶ υἱῷ ἀνθρώπου τῷ πλησίον αὐτοῦ.

BrTr Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even as the son of man with his neighbour!