- Bible
- Job
- Chapter 16
- Verse 21
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour !
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Gill's Exposition
When a few years are come,.... As the years of man's life are but few at most, and Job's years, which were yet to come, still fewer in his apprehension; or "years of number" (m), that are numbered by…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Job's condition was very deplorable; but had he nothing to support him, nothing to comfort him? Yes, and he here tells us what it was.
I. He had the testimony of his conscience for him that he had…
Cambridge Bible
That he would maintain the right of a man with God,
And of a son of man against his neighbour.
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