20 My intercessor(A) is my friend[a](B)
    as my eyes pour out(C) tears(D) to God;

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:20 Or My friends treat me with scorn

During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions(A) with fervent cries and tears(B) to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard(C) because of his reverent submission.(D)

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I pour out before him my complaint;(A)
    before him I tell my trouble.(B)

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11 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were furious(A) and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.

The Twelve Apostles(B)

12 One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.(C)

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In return for my friendship they accuse me,
    but I am a man of prayer.(A)

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Surely mockers(A) surround me;(B)
    my eyes must dwell on their hostility.

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I also could speak like you,
    if you were in my place;
I could make fine speeches against you
    and shake my head(A) at you.

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“I have become a laughingstock(A) to my friends,(B)
    though I called on God and he answered(C)
    a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!(D)
Those who are at ease have contempt(E) for misfortune
    as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.(F)

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He struggled with the angel and overcame him;
    he wept and begged for his favor.
He found him at Bethel(A)
    and talked with him there—
the Lord God Almighty,
    the Lord is his name!(B)

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