Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 16:20

"My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God," — Job 16:20 (ASV)

My friends scorn me. —Or, as an apostrophe, “You my scorners who profess and ought to be my friends: mine eye poureth out tears unto God that He would maintain the right of man with God, and of the son of man with his neighbour;” or, “that one might plead for man with God as the son of man pleads for his neighbour”—this is what he has already longed for in Job 9:33.