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Job 16:21

Job 16:21
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour !

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 16:17-22

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

That he would maintain the right of a man with God,

And of a son of man against his neighbour.