Job 16:20
For behold, my witness is in heaven, and my confidante is on high.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
In Context
19O earth, do not conceal my blood, nor let my outcry find a hiding place in you.
21My friends are full of words; my eye rains tears upon God.
Cross References
2 Kings 20:3“I beg you, O Lord, I beseech you, remember how I have walked before you in truth, and with a perfect heart, and how I have done what is pleasing before you.” And then Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.
Job 16:4I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul.
Job 23:3Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and that I may approach even to his throne?
Psalms 142:2And do not enter into judgment with your servant. For all the living will not be justified in your sight.
Luke 6:11Then they were filled with madness, and they discussed with one another, what, in particular, they might do about Jesus.
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 →