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Selected Verse: Job 16:21 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 16:21 |
Strong Concordance |
O that one might plead [03198] for a man [01397] with God [0433], as a man [0120] pleadeth for his neighbour [01121] [07453]! |
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King James |
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
one--rather, "He" (God). "Oh, that He would plead for a man (namely, me) against God." Job quaintly says, "God must support me against God; for He makes me to suffer, and He alone knows me to be innocent" [UMBREIT]. So God helped Jacob in wrestling against Himself (compare Job 23:6; Gen 32:25). God in Jesus Christ does plead with God for man (Rom 8:26-27).
as a man--literally, "the Son of man." A prefiguring of the advocacy of Jesus Christ--a boon longed for by Job (Job 9:33), though the spiritual pregnancy of his own words, designed for all ages, was but little understood by him (Psa 80:17).
for his neighbour--Hebrew, "friend." Job himself (Job 42:8) pleaded as intercessor for his "friends," though "his scorners" (Job 16:20); so Jesus Christ the Son of man (Luk 23:34); "for friends" (Joh 15:13-15). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| O that one might plead - Let me only have liberty to plead with God, as a man hath with his fellow. |
13 Greater [3187] love [26] hath [2192] no man [3762] than [3187] this [5026], that [2443] a man [5100] lay down [5087] his [846] life [5590] for [5228] his [846] friends [5384].
14 Ye [5210] are [2075] my [3450] friends [5384], if [1437] ye do [4160] whatsoever [3745] I [1473] command [1781] you [5213].
15 Henceforth [3765] I call [3004] you [5209] not [3765] servants [1401]; for [3754] the servant [1401] knoweth [1492] not [3756] what [5101] his [846] lord [2962] doeth [4160]: but [1161] I have called [2046] you [5209] friends [5384]; for [3754] all things [3956] that [3739] I have heard [191] of [3844] my [3450] Father [3962] I have made known [1107] unto you [5213].
34 Then [1161] said [3004] Jesus [2424], Father [3962], forgive [863] them [846]; for [1063] they know [1492] not [3756] what [5101] they do [4160]. And [1161] they parted [1266] his [846] raiment [2440], and cast [906] lots [2819].
20 My friends [07453] scorn [03887] me: but mine eye [05869] poureth out [01811] tears unto God [0433].
8 Therefore take [03947] unto you now seven [07651] bullocks [06499] and seven [07651] rams [0352], and go [03212] to my servant [05650] Job [0347], and offer up [05927] for yourselves a burnt offering [05930]; and my servant [05650] Job [0347] shall pray [06419] for you: for him [06440] will I accept [05375]: lest I deal [06213] with you after your folly [05039], in that ye have not spoken [01696] of me the thing which is right [03559], like my servant [05650] Job [0347].
17 Let thy hand [03027] be upon the man [0376] of thy right hand [03225], upon the son [01121] of man [0120] whom thou madest strong [0553] for thyself.
33 Neither is [03426] there any daysman [03198] betwixt us, that might lay [07896] his hand [03027] upon us both [08147].
26 [1161] Likewise [5615] the Spirit [4151] also [2532] helpeth [4878] our [2257] infirmities [769]: for [1063] we know [1492] not [3756] what [5101] we should pray for [4336] as [2526] we ought [1163]: but [235] the Spirit [4151] itself [846] maketh intercession [5241] for [5228] us [2257] with groanings [4726] which cannot be uttered [215].
27 And [1161] he that searcheth [2045] the hearts [2588] knoweth [1492] what [5101] is the mind [5427] of the Spirit [4151], because [3754] he maketh intercession [1793] for [5228] the saints [40] according [2596] to the will of God [2316].
25 And when he saw [07200] that he prevailed [03201] not against him, he touched [05060] the hollow of his thigh [03409]; and the hollow [03709] of Jacob's [03290] thigh [03409] was out of joint [03363], as he wrestled [079] with him.
6 Will he plead [07378] against [05978] me with his great [07230] power [03581]? No; but he would put [07760] strength in me.
20 Only do [06213] not two [08147] things unto me: then will I not hide [05641] myself from thee [06440].
21 Withdraw [07368] thine hand [03709] far [07368] from me: and let not thy dread [0367] make me afraid [01204].
18 Behold now, I have ordered [06186] my cause [04941]; I know [03045] that I shall be justified [06663].
19 Who is he that will plead [07378] with me? for now, if I hold my tongue [02790], I shall give up the ghost [01478].
20 Only do [06213] not two [08147] things unto me: then will I not hide [05641] myself from thee [06440].
21 Withdraw [07368] thine hand [03709] far [07368] from me: and let not thy dread [0367] make me afraid [01204].
22 Then call [07121] thou, and I will answer [06030]: or let me speak [01696], and answer [07725] thou me.
3 Surely [0199] I would speak [01696] to the Almighty [07706], and I desire [02654] to reason [03198] with God [0410].