Verse 20

My friends scorn me, but my eye pours out tears to God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 12:4-5 : 4 I am like one mocked by his neighbor, who calls upon God, and He answers him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn. 5 He who is ready to slip with his feet is like a lamp despised in the thought of him who is at ease.
  • Job 16:4 : 4 I too could speak as you do; if your soul were in my soul's place, I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
  • Job 17:2 : 2 Are there not mockers with me? And does not my eye continue in their provocation?
  • Ps 109:4 : 4 In return for my love they are my adversaries, but I give myself to prayer.
  • Ps 142:2 : 2 I poured out my complaint before Him; I showed Him my trouble.
  • Hos 12:4-5 : 4 Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept and made supplication to him; he found him in Bethel, and there He spoke with us; 5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is His memorial.
  • Luke 6:11-12 : 11 And they were filled with madness; and talked among themselves what they might do to Jesus. 12 And it happened in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
  • Heb 5:7 : 7 In the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His reverent submission;