Job 16:20

My friends scorn me:

Mine eye poureth out tears unto God, scorn me lit. are my scorners, or, mockers instead of being my witnesses, cf. Job 12:4; Job 16:4-5. Because his friends mock him and no sympathy or insight is to be looked for from them (Job 16:7; Job 17:4), his eye droppethhe appeals with tears to God; cf. Isaiah 38:14. What Job desires of his Witness is that he would see right done him both with God and with men with God who wrongly held him guilty, and against men, his fellows, who founding on God's dealing with him held him guilty also and were his mockers. On first clause of Job 16:21 cf. Job 13:15; Job 23:7. The "man" and "son of man" to whom Job refers is himself; there is nothing mystical in the phrase "son of man," which means merely "man," Hebrew poetry requiring for its parallelism such variety of expression.