Job 16:19
Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
In Context
18Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
20And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
Cross References
Genesis 31:50If you shall humble my daughters, if you should take wives in addition to my daughters, see, there is no one with us looking on. God is witness between me and you.
Job 25:2What beginning or fear is his—even he that makes all things in the highest?
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 →