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Job 16:19

Job 16:19
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

My friends scorn me,.... Not that they scoffed at his afflictions and calamities, and at his diseases and disorders, that would have been very brutish and inhuman, but at his words, the arguments and…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

My witness is in heaven - That is, I can appeal to God for my sincerity. He is my witness; and he will bear record for me. This is an evidence of returning confidence in God - to which Job always…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 16:17-22

Job's condition was very deplorable; but had he nothing to support him, nothing to comfort him? Yes, and he here tells us what it was.

I. He had the testimony of his conscience for him that he had…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

If his blood is to cry with an unceasing voice for reparation until it find it, there must be some one to take up the cry and see reparation made. Job is assured that already he has such a Witness and…