Job 16:19
For lo, now my witnesse is in the heauen, and my record is on hie.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
In Context
18O earth, couer not thou my blood, and let my crying finde no place.
20My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.
Cross References
Genesis 31:50If thou shalt vexe my daughters, or shalt take wiues beside my daughters: there is no man with vs, beholde, God is witnesse betweene me and thee.
Job 25:2Power and feare is with him, that maketh peace in his hie places.
Romans 1:9For God is my witnesse (whom I serue in my spirit in the Gospel of his Sonne) that without ceasing I make mention of you
2 Corinthians 1:23Nowe, I call God for a recorde vnto my soule, that to spare you, I came not as yet vnto Corinthus.
1 Thessalonians 2:5Neither yet did we euer vse flattering wordes, as ye knowe, nor coloured couetousnes, God is recorde.
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 →