Job 16:21

Almeida Revista e Atualizada

para que ele mantenha o direito do homem contra o prprio Deus e o do filho do homem contra o seu prximo.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Ah! se algum pudesse contender com Deus pelo homem, como o homem pelo seu prximo!

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
Ah! Se algum pudesse contender com Deus pelo homem, como o filho do homem pelo seu amigo!

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.