Job 16:20
Modern Translations
New International Version
My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

New Living Translation
My friends scorn me, but I pour out my tears to God.

English Standard Version
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

Berean Study Bible
My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

New American Standard Bible
“My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God,

NASB 1995
"My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God.

NASB 1977
“My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God.

Amplified Bible
“My friends are scoffers [who ridicule]; My eye pours out tears to God.

Christian Standard Bible
My friends scoff at me as I weep before God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My friends scoff at me as I weep before God.

Contemporary English Version
My friends have rejected me, but God is the one I beg

Good News Translation
My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
the spokesman for my thoughts. My eyes drip [with tears] to God

International Standard Version
My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God,

NET Bible
My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
Classic Translations
King James Bible
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

New King James Version
My friends scorn me; My eyes pour out tears to God.

King James 2000 Bible
My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears unto God.

New Heart English Bible
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

World English Bible
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

American King James Version
My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears to God.

American Standard Version
My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

A Faithful Version
My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God.

Darby Bible Translation
My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God.

English Revised Version
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God;

Webster's Bible Translation
My friends scorn me: but my eye poureth out tears to God.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
My friendes geue me many wordes to scorne, and myne eye powreth out teares vnto God.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
My frendes laugh me to scorne, but myne eye poureth out teares vnto God.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
My interpreter [is] my friend, "" My eye has dropped to God;

Young's Literal Translation
My interpreter is my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:

Smith's Literal Translation
My friends mocking me: to God mine eye wept.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.

Catholic Public Domain Version
My friends are full of words; my eye rains tears upon God.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
My brothers and my friends, my eyes overflow to God!

Lamsa Bible
O my brethren and my neighbors! my eyes pour out tears to God!

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Mine inward thoughts are my intercessors, Mine eye poureth out tears unto God;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.
















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