Job 16:20
For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
In Context
19O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee.
21My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.
Cross References
2 Kings 20:3I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is pleasing before thee. And Ezechias wept with much weeping.
Job 16:4I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.
Job 23:3Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne?
Psalms 142:2Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; the lifting up of my hands, as evening sacrifice.
Luke 6:11And they were filled with madness; and they talked one with another, what they might do to 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 →