Job 16:19
O earth, do not conceal my blood, nor let my outcry find a hiding place in you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
In Context
18These things I have endured without iniquity in my hand, while I held pure prayers before God.
20For behold, my witness is in heaven, and my confidante is on high.
Cross References
Genesis 31:50If you afflict my daughters, and if you bring in other wives over them, no one is a witness of our words except God, who understands beforehand.”
Job 25:2Power and terror are with him that makes a pact with those in high places.
Romans 1:9For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit by the Gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I have kept a remembrance of you
2 Corinthians 1:23But I call God as a witness to my soul, that I was lenient with you, in that I did not return to Corinth:
1 Thessalonians 2:5And neither did we, at any time, become flattering in speech, as you know, nor did we seek an opportunity for avarice, as God is witness.
Matthew Henry on Job 16:18-22
Testimony of Conscience; Job's Comfort in Conscious Integrity. ( b. c. 1520.) 17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. 18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. 19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. 20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! 22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. Job's… Read the whole commentary →