Job 16:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

🎯 Translation Approach

A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Readability

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💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

✅ Strengths

High fidelity to original languages
Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Job 12:4-5 : 4 I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock. 5 In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.
Job 16:4 : 4 I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.
Job 17:2 : 2 Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
Ps 109:4 : 4 For my love they are my adversaries: But I [give myself unto] prayer.
Ps 142:2 : 2 I pour out my complaint before him; I show before him my trouble.
Hos 12:4-5 : 4 yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him at Beth-el, and there he spake with us, 5 even Jehovah, the God of hosts; Jehovah is his memorial [name].
Luke 6:11-12 : 11 But they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus. 12 And it came to pass in these days, that he went out into the mountain to pray; and he continued all night in prayer to God.
Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up {G5037} prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Job 16:21
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21That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!
Job 16:15-16
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79%
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.
16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Job 16:19
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19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that voucheth for me is on high.
Job 19:18-21
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18Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.
19All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.
20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.
Lam 1:16
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16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.
Ps 6:7
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7Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.
Job 17:2
76%
2Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
Job 17:6-7
2 verses
75%
6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
Ps 42:3
75%
3My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Ps 69:20
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20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
Job 16:9-10
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74%
9He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.
Ps 35:14-15
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14I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.
15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; They did tear me, and ceased not:
Ps 69:3
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3I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Ps 22:7
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7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying],
Job 3:24
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24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
Ps 38:10-11
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10My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.
Ps 25:16
73%
16Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; For I am desolate and afflicted.
Lam 1:21-22
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73%
21They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.
22Let all their wickedness come before thee; And do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
Ps 102:8
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8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me.
Ps 31:11
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11Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.
Lam 3:49
73%
49Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Job 19:13-14
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13He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
14My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Jer 20:10
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10For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
Lam 3:51
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51Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Ps 31:9
72%
9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.
Job 19:7
72%
7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
Job 6:13-14
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13Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?
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Ps 39:12
72%
12Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Job 30:16
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16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Job 30:19
72%
19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
Ps 42:10
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10As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Ps 38:17
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17For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
Ps 88:9
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9Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee.
Job 12:4
71%
4I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
Jer 9:1
71%
1Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Job 30:25
71%
25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
Lam 3:14
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14I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
Lam 3:8
71%
8Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
Job 10:20
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20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,