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Job 16:19

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16:19Even now my witness49 is in heaven;

my advocate50 is on high.

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Footnotes

  1. 49 The witness in heaven must be God, to whom the cries and prayers come. Job’s dilemma is serious, but common to the human experience: the hostility of God toward him is baffling, but he is conscious of his innocence and can call on God to be his witness.
  2. 50 The parallelism now uses the Aramaic word “my advocate”—the one who testifies on my behalf. The word again appears in Gen 31:47 for Laban’s naming of the “heap of witness” in Aramaic—“Sahadutha.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,

and he who testifies for me is on high.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Even now my witness is in heaven;

my advocate is on high.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Even now my witness is in heaven,

and my advocate is in the heights!

NLTNew Living Translation

Even now my witness is in heaven.

My advocate is there on high.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

So now look, my witness is in the heavens,

and he who vouches for me is in the heights.

KJV 1900King James Version

Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven,

And my record is on high.