Job 16:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 12:4-5 : 4 It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of! 5 In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
  • Job 16:4 : 4 It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:
  • Job 17:2 : 2 Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.
  • Ps 109:4 : 4 For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.
  • Ps 142:2 : 2 I put all my sorrows before him; and made clear to him all my trouble.
  • Hos 12:4-5 : 4 In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God; 5 He had a fight with the angel and overcame him; he made request for grace to him with weeping; he came face to face with him in Beth-el and there his words came to him;
  • Luke 6:11-12 : 11 But they were full of wrath, and were talking together about what they might do to Jesus. 12 And it came about in those days that he went out to the mountain for prayer; and he was all night in prayer to God.
  • Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.

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