Job 16:19

Job 16:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
• New International Version (NIV)Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Surely even now my witness is in heaven, And my evidence is on high.

Context of Job 16:19

17Yet I have done no wrong, and my prayer is pure. 18“O earth, do not conceal my blood. Let it cry out on my behalf. Even now my witness is in heaven. My advocate is there on high. 20My friends scorn me, but I pour out my tears to God. 21I need someone to mediate between God and me, as a person mediates between friends.

Job 16:19 word by word

גַּם־עַ֭תָּה הִנֵּה־בַשָּׁמַ֣יִם עֵדִ֑י וְ֝שָׂהֲדִ֗י בַּמְּרוֹמִֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Also now, behold, my witnessעֵד‛êd · witnessH5707
• in heavenשָׁמַיִםshâmayim shâmeh · heavenH8064
• and my recordשָׂהֵדώâhêd · witnessH7717
• on highמָרוֹםmârôm · heightH4791

Cross-references for Job 16:19

• 1 Samuel 12:5“The Lord and his anointed one are my witnesses today,” Samuel declared, “that my hands are clean.” “Yes, he is a witness,” they replied.
• Romans 1:9God knows how often I pray for you. Day and night I bring you and your needs in prayer to God, whom I serve with all my heart by spreading the Good News about his Son.
• Romans 9:1With Christ as my witness, I speak with utter truthfulness. My conscience and the Holy Spirit confirm it.
• 2 Corinthians 1:23Now I call upon God as my witness that I am telling the truth. The reason I didn’t return to Corinth was to spare you from a severe rebuke.
• 2 Corinthians 11:31God, the Father of our Lord Jesus, who is worthy of eternal praise, knows I am not lying.
• 1 Thessalonians 2:10You yourselves are our witnesses—and so is God—that we were devout and honest and faultless toward all of you believers.
• Job 25:2“God is powerful and dreadful. He enforces peace in the heavens.
• Psalms 113:5Who can be compared with the Lord our God, who is enthroned on high?

Commentaries on Job 16:19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19My witness is in heaven - I appeal to God for my innocence.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19My witness is in heaven - That is, I can appeal to God for my sincerity. He is my witness; and he will bear record for me. This is an evidence of returning confidence in God - to which Job always returns even after the most passionate and irreverent expressions. Such is his real trust in God, that though he is betrayed at times into expressions of impatience and irreverence, yet he is sure to return to calmer views, and to show that he has true confidence…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-22Verses 17-22 Job's condition was very deplorable; but he had the testimony of his conscience for him, that he never allowed himself in any gross sin. No one was ever more ready to acknowledge sins of infirmity. Eliphaz had charged him with hypocrisy in religion, but he specifies prayer, the great act of religion, and professes that in this he was pure, though not from all infirmity. He had a God to go to, who he doubted not took full notice of all his…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19-21my witness is in heaven: Job wished for a kind third party to be "a mediator" between him and God (see 9:32–35). Job wanted a heavenly advocate who would eventually stand on the earth (16:19; compare Zechariah 3:1; Job 19:25; compare 1 Samuel 24:15; John 14:16, 26; 15:26; 16:7; 1 John 2:1).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. Also now--Even now, when I am so greatly misunderstood on earth, God in heaven is sensible of my innocence. record--Hebrew, "in the high places"; Hebrew, "my witness." Amidst all his impatience, Job still trusts in God.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 16:19

• Faith
• Heart
• Holy Spirit
• Zeal, Religious

In the dictionaries

• Comforter
• Foul
• Plead
• Scorn
• Bildad
• Death
• God
• Jegar-Saha-Dutha
• Record

Commentaries on Job 16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary