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Job 16

Job 16:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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My friends
rea` (Hebrew #7453)
from 7462; an associate (more or less close)
KJV usage: brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, X (an-)other.
Pronounce: ray'-ah
Origin: or reya2 {ray'-ah}
λscorn
luwts (Hebrew #3887)
properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede
KJV usage: ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker, scorn(-er, -ful), teacher.
Pronounce: loots
Origin: a primitive root
me: but mine eye
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
poureth out
dalaph (Hebrew #1811)
to drip; by implication, to weep
KJV usage: drop through, melt, pour out.
Pronounce: daw-laf'
Origin: a primitive root
tears unto God
'elowahh (Hebrew #433)
a deity or the Deity
KJV usage: God, god. See 430.
Pronounce: el-o'-ah;
Origin: probably prolonged (emphat.) from 410
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are my scorners.

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scorn me.
Heb. are my scorners.
Job 16:4• 4I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you; (Job 16:4)
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Job 12:4‑5• 4I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon +God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright man.
 5He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. (Job 12:4‑5)
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Job 17:2• 2Are there not mockers around me? and doth not mine eye abide in their provocation? (Job 17:2)
poureth.
Psa. 109:4• 4For my love they are mine adversaries; but I give myself unto prayer. (Psa. 109:4)
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Psa. 142:2• 2I pour out my plaint before him; I shew before him my trouble. (Psa. 142:2)
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Hos. 12:4‑5• 4Yea, he wrestled with the Angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
 5--even Jehovah, the God of hosts,--Jehovah is his memorial. (Hos. 12:4‑5)
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Luke 6:11‑12• 11But *they* were filled with madness, and they spoke together among themselves what they should do to Jesus.
 12And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. (Luke 6:11‑12)
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Heb. 5:7• 7Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him who was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears; (and having been heard because of his piety;) (Heb. 5:7)

J. N. Darby Translation

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My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God.