Job 16:19 {20}
Good News Translation
There is someone in heaven to stand up for me and take my side.

New Revised Standard Version
Even now, in fact, my witness is in heaven, and he that vouches for me is on high.

Contemporary English Version
Even now, God in heaven is both my witness and my protector.

New American Bible
Even now my witness is in heaven, my advocate is on high.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.

my witness

1 Samuel 12:5 And he said to them: The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found any thing in my hand. And they said: He is witness.

Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make a commemoration of you:

Romans 9:1 I speak the truth in Christ: I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost:

2 Corinthians 1:23 But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you, I came not any more to Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over your faith: but we are helpers of your joy. For in faith you stand.

2 Corinthians 11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lie not.

1 Thessalonians 2:10 You are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and without blame we have been to you that have believed:

on high.

Job 25:2 Power and terror are with him, who maketh peace in his high places.

Psalm 113:5 Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high:

Context
Job Decries his Comforters
18O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee. 19For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.20My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.…
Cross References
Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make a commemoration of you:

Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither have we used at any time the speech of flattery, as you know: nor taken an occasion of covetousness (God is witness):

Genesis 31:50
If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.

Job 16:18
O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee.

Job 19:25
For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.

Job 25:2
Power and terror are with him, who maketh peace in his high places.

Job 31:2
For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?

Psalm 89:37
And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for ever, and a faithful witness in heaven.

Psalm 148:1
Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise ye him in the high places.

Job 16:18
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