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Job 16:21 KJV
Job · chapter 16 · verse 21
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!Job 16:21 · King James Version
Job 16:21 in context
19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- neighbourbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- pleadyâkachto be rightH3198 →
- Godʼĕlôwahha deity or the DeityH433 →
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Job's condition was very deplorable; but had he nothing to support him, nothing to comfort him? Yes, and he here tells us what it was. I. He had the testimony of his conscience for him that he had walked uprightly, and had never allowed himself in any gross sin.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-22