Parallel Verses
- New International Reader's Version - He makes his appeal to God to help me as a person pleads for a friend.
- 新标点和合本 - 愿人得与 神辩白， 如同人与朋友辩白一样；
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 愿人可与上帝理论， 如同人与朋友一样；
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 愿人可与 神理论， 如同人与朋友一样；
- 当代译本 - 但愿人与上帝之间有仲裁者， 如同人与人之间。
- 圣经新译本 - 但愿人可以为人与 神分辩， 正如世人为朋友辩白一样。
- 现代标点和合本 - 愿人得与神辩白， 如同人与朋友辩白一样！
- 和合本（拼音版） - 愿人得与上帝辩白， 如同人与朋友辩白一样。
- New International Version - on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a friend.
- English Standard Version - that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.
- New Living Translation - I need someone to mediate between God and me, as a person mediates between friends.
- Christian Standard Bible - I wish that someone might argue for a man with God just as anyone would for a friend.
- New American Standard Bible - That one might plead for a man with God As a son of man with his neighbor!
- New King James Version - Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, As a man pleads for his neighbor!
- Amplified Bible - Oh, that a man would mediate and plead with God [for me] Just as a man [mediates and pleads] with his neighbor and friend.
- American Standard Version - That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!
- King James Version - O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
- New English Translation - and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.
- World English Bible - that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
- 新標點和合本 - 願人得與神辯白， 如同人與朋友辯白一樣；
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 願人可與上帝理論， 如同人與朋友一樣；
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 願人可與 神理論， 如同人與朋友一樣；
- 當代譯本 - 但願人與上帝之間有仲裁者， 如同人與人之間。
- 聖經新譯本 - 但願人可以為人與 神分辯， 正如世人為朋友辯白一樣。
- 呂振中譯本 - 但願人得以同上帝辯訴， 就如同 人 跟朋友 訴說 一樣。
- 現代標點和合本 - 願人得與神辯白， 如同人與朋友辯白一樣！
- 文理和合譯本 - 願上帝為人辨冤於其前、並在人之鄰里中、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 願得在上帝前、明辨其冤、如與同儕言者然、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 願世人得與天主辯論、如人與人辯論然、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - para que interceda ante Dios en favor mío, como quien apela por su amigo.
- 현대인의 성경 - 사람이 자기 친구를 위해서 변호하듯 누가 나를 위해 하나님께 변호해 주었으면 좋으련만!
- Новый Русский Перевод - Мой заступник защитит меня перед Богом, как человек защищает в суде своего друга.
- Восточный перевод - Мой заступник защитит меня перед Всевышним, как человек защищает в суде своего друга.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Мой заступник защитит меня перед Аллахом, как человек защищает в суде своего друга.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Мой заступник защитит меня перед Всевышним, как человек защищает в суде своего друга.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Qu’il prenne la défense ╵d’un homme devant Dieu, et qu’il arbitre ╵entre l’homme et son compagnon .
- リビングバイブル - 人が友のためにとりなすように、 その方に、私と神との間に立っていただきたい。
- Nova Versão Internacional - ele defende a causa do homem perante Deus, como quem defende a causa de um amigo.
- Hoffnung für alle - Er wird mich freisprechen und mir bei anderen Menschen Recht verschaffen.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Tôi cần một người biện hộ giữa Đức Chúa Trời và tôi, như con người vẫn biện hộ cho bạn thân.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ผู้นั้นช่วยวิงวอนพระเจ้าแทนมนุษย์ เหมือนเพื่อนช่วยอ้อนวอนแทนกัน
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - พระองค์เป็นดั่งพยานผู้ร้องขอพระเจ้า ดั่งบุตรของมนุษย์ที่กระทำเพื่อเพื่อนของเขา
Cross Reference
- Ecclesiastes 6:10 - God has already planned what now exists. He has already decided what a human being is. No one can argue with someone who is stronger.
- Job 13:22 - Then send for me, and I’ll answer. Or let me speak, and you reply.
- Job 31:35 - “I wish someone would listen to me! I’m signing my name to everything I’ve said. I hope the Mighty One will give me his answer. I hope the one who brings charges against me will write them down.
- Job 23:3 - I wish I knew where I could find him! I wish I could go to the place where he lives!
- Job 23:4 - I would state my case to him. I’d give him all my arguments.
- Job 23:5 - I’d find out what his answers would be. I’d think about what he would say to me.
- Job 23:6 - Would he strongly oppose me? No. He wouldn’t bring charges against me.
- Job 23:7 - There honest people can prove to him they’re not guilty. There my Judge would tell me once and for all that I’m not guilty.
- Job 13:3 - In fact, I long to speak to the Mighty One. I want to argue my case with God.
- Job 40:1 - The Lord continued,
- Job 40:2 - “I am the Mighty One. Will the man who argues with me correct me? Let him who brings charges against me answer me!”
- Job 40:3 - Job replied to the Lord,
- Job 40:4 - “I’m not worthy. How can I reply to you? I’m putting my hand over my mouth. I’ll stop talking.
- Job 40:5 - I spoke once. But I really don’t have any answer. I spoke twice. But I won’t say anything else.”
- Job 9:34 - I wish someone would keep God from punishing me. Then his terror wouldn’t frighten me anymore.
- Job 9:35 - I would speak up without being afraid of him. But as things stand now, I can’t do that.
- Isaiah 45:9 - How terrible it will be for anyone who argues with their Maker! They are like a broken piece of pottery lying on the ground. Does clay say to a potter, “What are you making?” Does a pot say, “The potter doesn’t have any skill”?
- Romans 9:20 - But you are a mere human being. So who are you to talk back to God? Scripture says, “Can what is made say to the one who made it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ” ( Isaiah 29:16 ; 45:9 )