18 O earth, cover not thou my [a]blood, and let my crying find no place.

19 For lo, now my [b]witness is in the heaven, and my record is on high.

20 My friends [c]speak eloquently against me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

21 Oh that a man might [d]plead with God, as man with his neighbor!

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:18 Let my sin be known if I be such a sinner as mine adversaries accuse me, and let me find no favor.
  2. Job 16:19 Though man condemn me, yet God is witness of my cause.
  3. Job 16:20 Use painted words instead of true consolation.
  4. Job 16:21 Thus by his great torments he is carried away, and breaketh out into passions, and speaketh unadvisedly, as though God should entreat man more gently, seeing he hath but a short time here to live.

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