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Job 16:21
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I need someone to mediate between God and me, as a person mediates between friends.
That he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbour!
That he would maintain the right of a [noble] man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!
He begs God on behalf of a human as a person begs for his friend.
and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbor!
That he would maintain the right of a man with God, Of a son of man with his neighbor!
"Oh, that a man would mediate and plead with God [for me] Just as a man [mediates and pleads] with his neighbor and friend.
that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.
And `Y wolde, that a man were demed so with God, as the sone of man is demed with his felowe.
Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
to show that I am right, just as a friend should.
That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!
So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
that he would arbitrate between a man and God, just as one does for his fellow human being.
Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!
He speaks to God for me, like someone presenting an argument for a friend.
That He would set aright a man contending with God, as a son of man setteth aright his neighbour!
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour.
If only a man could give reasons to God, as a man does for his neighbor!
that he would maintain the right of a mortal with God, as one does for a neighbor.
Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!
I want someone to plead with God for me, as one pleads for a friend.
That one might plead, for a man, with GOD, - Even a son of man, for his friend!
(16-22) And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, like that of a man with his neighbor.
O that a body might pleate with God, as one man doth with an other:
Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.
I wish that someone might argue for a man with Godjust as anyone would for a friend.
That he would maintain the right of a man with God, Of a son of man with his neighbor!
and it argues for a mortal with God, and as a human for his friend.
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his friend!
And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.
Though a body might pleate wt God, as one man doth with another,
That one might plead for a man with God As a son of man with his neighbor!
Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, As a man pleads for his neighbor!
"O that a man might plead with God As a man with his neighbor!
O that a man might argue with GodAs a man with his neighbor!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
plead: Job 9:34, Job 9:35, Job 13:3, Job 13:22, Job 23:3-7, Job 31:35, Job 40:1-5, Ecclesiastes 6:10, Isaiah 45:9, Romans 9:20
neighbour: or, friend
Reciprocal: Exodus 33:11 - his friend Job 13:15 - but I will Job 13:18 - I have ordered Job 19:7 - no judgment Job 22:4 - will he enter Job 34:23 - that he Job 40:4 - what Psalms 32:4 - hand Isaiah 43:26 - Put James 2:23 - the Friend
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Oh that one might plead for a man with God,.... That is, that one might be appointed and allowed to plead with God on his account; or that he be admitted to plead with God for himself; or however, that there might be a hearing of his case before God, and that he would decide the thing in controversy between him and his friends, when he doubted not but it would be given on his side:
as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbour; using great freedom, and powerful arguments, and having no dread of the judge, nor fear of carrying the cause for his neighbour; so Job wishes, that either one for him, or he himself, might be freed from the dread of the divine Majesty, and might be suffered to speak as freely to his case as a counsellor at the bar does for his client. The words will admit of a more evangelic sense by observing that God, to whom Job says his eye poured out tears, at the close of Job 16:20, is to be understood of the second Person in the Godhead, Jehovah, the Son of God, the Messiah; and then read these words that follow thus, "and he will plead for a man with God, and the Son of man for his friend"; which last clause perhaps may be better rendered, "even the Son of man", c. and so they are expressive of Job's faith, that though his friends despised him, yet he to whom he poured out his tears, and committed his case, would plead his cause with God for him, and thoroughly plead it, when he should be acquitted. The appellation, "the Son of man", is a well known name for the Messiah in the New Testament, and is not altogether unknown in the Old, see Psalms 80:17 and one part of his work and office is to be an advocate with the Father for his friends, whom he makes, reckons, and uses as such, even all the Father has given him, and he has redeemed by his blood; for these he pleads his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice, to the satisfaction of the law, and justice of God, and against Satan, and all enemies whatever, and for every blessing they want; and for which work he is abundantly fit, because of the dignity of his person, his nearness to God his Father, and the interest he has in him. Gussetius l goes this way, and observes that this sense has not been taken notice of by interpreters, which he seems to wonder at; whereas our English annotator on the place had it long ago, and Mr. Caryll after him, though disapproved of by some modern interpreters.
l Ebr. Comment. p. 320, 321.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Oh that one might plead for a man - A more correct rendering of this would be, “Oh that it might be for a man to contend with God;” that is, in a judicial controversy. It is the expression of an earnest desire to carry his cause at once before God, and to be permitted to argue it there. This desire Job had often expressed; see Job 13:3, note; Job 13:18-22, notes. On the grammatical construction of the passage, see Rosenmuller.
As a man pleadeth for his neighbour - Hebrew “the son of man;” that is, the offspring of man. Or, rather, as a man contendeth with his neighbor; as one man may carry on a cause with another. He desired to carry his cause directly before God, and to be permitted to argue the case with him, as one is permitted to maintain an argument with a man; see the notes at Job 13:20-21.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 16:21. O that one might plead — Let me only have liberty to plead with God, as a man hath with his fellow.
