Job 16:20
Job · Old Testament · Chapter 16
“My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.”Job 16:20
What Does Job 16:20 Mean?
Job 16:20 is found in the book of Job, chapter 16, verse 20 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 16 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (16)
These passages are connected to Job 16:20 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Psalms 56:8“Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?”Psalms 39:12“Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.”Hebrews 5:7“Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;”Psalms 142:2“I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.”Job 12:4“I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.”Job 16:4“I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.”Job 17:2“Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?”Psalms 109:4“For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.”Luke 6:11“And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.”Job 21:3“Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.”Psalms 6:6“I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.”Psalms 119:22“Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.”Hosea 12:4“Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;”1 Samuel 7:6“And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.”Psalms 88:9“Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.”Job 2:11“Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.”
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