JOB 16:20 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) My friends scorn me.
⇔ The tears of my eyes are directed to God.

Key: khaki:verbs, blue:Elohim.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Ἀφίκοιτό μου ἡ δέησις πρὸς Κύριον, ἔναντι δὲ αὐτοῦ στάζοι μου ὁ ὀφθαλμός.
(Afikoito mou haʸ deaʸsis pros Kurion, enanti de autou stazoi mou ho ofthalmos. )

UST This person in heaven is my friend,
⇔ and he will plead with God for me.
⇔ At the same time, I will also plead with God
⇔ so earnestly that I will weep.

OEB My friends pour their scorn upon me,
⇔ But my tear-stained eyes look unto God,

WEBBE My friends scoff at me.
⇔ My eyes pour out tears to God,

WMBB (Same as above)

NET My intercessor is my friend
⇔ as my eyes pour out tears to God;

LSV My interpreter [is] my friend,
My eye has dropped to God;

FBV My friends scorn me, but my eyes pour out tears to God.

T4T My three friends scorn/ridicule me,
⇔ but my eyes are full of tears while I cry out to God.

LEB • my eye pours out tears to God,

BBE My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

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JPS Mine inward thoughts are my intercessors, mine eye poureth out tears unto God;

ASV My friends scoff at me:
⇔ But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

DRA For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.

YLT My interpreter [is] my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:

Drby My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto [fn]God.

16.20 Eloah

RV My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God;

Wbstr My friends scorn me: but my eye poureth out tears to God.

KJB-1769 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.[fn]

16.20 scorn me: Heb. are my scorners

KJB-1611 [fn]My friends scorne me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.
(My friends scorne me: but mine eye powreth out teares unto God.)

16:20 Heb. are my scorners.

Bshps My friendes geue me many wordes to scorne, and myne eye powreth out teares vnto God.
(My friendes give me many words to scorne, and mine eye powreth out teares unto God.)

Gnva My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.
(My friends speak eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares unto God. )

Cvdl My frendes laugh me to scorne, but myne eye poureth out teares vnto God.
(My friends laugh me to scorne, but mine eye poureth out teares unto God.)

Wyc `For, lo! my witnesse is in heuene; and the knowere of my consience is in hiye places.
(`For, lo! my witness is in heaven; and the knowere of my consience is in hiye places.)

Luth Meine Freunde sind meine Spötter; aber mein Auge tränet zu GOtt.
(My friends are my Spötter; but my Auge tränet to God.)

ClVg ecce enim in cælo testis meus, et conscius meus in excelsis.[fn]
(ecce because in cælo testis mine, and conscius mine in excelsis. )

16.20 Ecce enim in, etc. Testis Filii Pater est, ut in Evangelio: Et qui misit me Pater, ipse testimonium perhibuit de me. Et conscius meus. Quia una voluntate, etc., usque ad sed talis hominum reprehensiones metuere non debet, unde subditur.

16.20 Behold because in, etc. Testis Children Pater it_is, as in Evangelio: And who he_sent me Pater, exactly_that/himself testimony perhibuit about me. And conscius meus. Because una voluntate, etc., until to but talis of_men reprehensiones metuere not/no debet, whence subditur.

UTN 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”

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