Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Job 16:19
Besides the witness of men and of my own conscience, God is witness of my integrity.
Besides the witness of men and of my own conscience, God is witness of my integrity.
Verse Job 16:19. _MY WITNESS_ IS _IN HEAVEN_] I appeal to God for my innocence....
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 retu...
CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ _ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_ 2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6) 3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15) 4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...
Job cries to the avenger of blood to avenge his innocence. He is a martyr, and feels that his blood must cry for vengeance (Genesis 4:10 *, Revelation 6:10). Job arrives at the astounding thought that...
Job 16:18 to Job 17:9. Job, dying a martyr's death, beseeches God that He would uphold his right with God and against men, and give him a pledge that He will make his innocence appear In Job 16:12 Jo...
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...
DISCOURSE: 467 JOB’S CONSCIOUS INTEGRITY Job 16:19. _Now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high_. GREATLY was this holy man afflicted by his own friends, who came to condole with...
3. He must be vindicated by a heavenly witness. (Job 16:18-22) TEXT 16:18-22 18 O EARTH, COVER NOT THOU MY BLOOD, And let my cry have no _resting-place._ 19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heav...
_ALSO NOW, BEHOLD, MY WITNESS IS IN HEAVEN, AND MY RECORD IS ON HIGH._ Also now - even now, when I am so greatly misunderstood on earth, God in heaven is sensible of my innocence. RECORD - Hebrew,...
16:19 he (c-11) i.e. God....
ALSO NOW] RV 'Even now.' MY RECORD] RV 'he that voucheth for me.'...
JOB'S FOURTH SPEECH (JOB 16:17) See introductory remarks on Job 15-21. 1-5. Job retorts scornfully that he too could offer such empty 'comfort' if he were in the friends' place....
Job’s words in verses 7–18 seemed hopeless. But then Job spoke about his ‘friend’. Job did not say who this friend was. But Job did not mean Eliphaz, Bildad or Zophar. This friend was in heaven. He wa...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 16 JOB REPLIES TO ELIPHAZ’S...
MY WITNESS IS IN HEAVEN. — It is very important to note passages such as these, because they help us to understand, and serve to illustrate, the famous confession in Job 19. This is surely a wonderful...
גַּם ־עַ֭תָּה הִנֵּה ־בַ † שָּׁמַ֣יִם עֵדִ֑י...
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1; Job 17:1 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying term...
TURNING FROM “MISERABLE COMFORTERS” UNTO GOD Job 16:1 With bitterness the sufferer turns from his comforters to God. As the r.v. makes clear, he says that if he were in their place and they in his,...
Job immediately answered. His answer dealt less with the argument they suggested than before. While the darkness was still about him, and in some senses the agony of his soul was deepening, yet it is...
Also now, behold, my (t) witness [is] in heaven, and my record [is] on high. (t) Though man condemn me, yet God is witness of my cause....
_In thee. Let the cry of my blood, which issues from my wounds, and the injury which my reputation has suffered, come before the throne of God. Calumny is a species of murder. See Genesis iv. 10. (Cal...
(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 pl...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
ALSO NOW, BEHOLD, MY WITNESS [IS] IN HEAVEN,.... That is, God, who dwells in the heavens, where his throne is, and which is the habitation of his holiness, and from whence he beholds all the sons of m...
Also now, behold, my witness [is] in heaven, and my record [is] on high. Ver. 19. _Also now behold my witness is in heaven_] Here is his appeal to God. So great is the confidence of a good conscience...
_Behold, my witness is in heaven_ Besides the witness of men, and of my own conscience, God is witness of my integrity. The witness of men, and even that in our own bosoms for us, will stand us in lit...
Also now, behold, my Witness is in heaven, and my Record, He who attested to his innocence, IS ON HIGH, even though all appearances are now against him....
JOB SHOWS THE PITIFULNESS OF HIS CASE AND MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE...
JOB REPROVES THEIR HEARTLESSNESS (vv.1-5) Eliphaz had claimed to be giving Job "the consolations of God," and this moves Job to reply bitterly, "Miserable comforters are you all!" (v.2). Instead of...
ON HIGH: _ Heb._ in the high places...
"EVEN NOW, BEHOLD, MY WITNESS IS IN HEAVEN, AND MY ADVOCATE IS ON HIGH": Job was confident that there was someone in heaven who would tell the truth about him and testify on his behalf. Is this. refer...
17-22 Job's condition was very deplorable; but he had the testimony of his conscience for him, that he never allowed himself in any gross sin. No one was ever more ready to acknowledge sins of infirm...
Job 16:19 witness H5707 heaven H8064 evidence H7717 high H4791 my witness - 1 Samuel 12:5; R
CONTENTS: Job charges that Eliphaz is but heaping up words. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: It is a great comfort to a good man who lies under the censures of brethren who do not un...
Job 16:2. _Miserable comforters are ye all._ The Vulgate, “burdensome comforters,” who afflicted instead of consoling their friend. Job 16:3. _Shall vain words have an end._ He plainly tells Eliphaz...
_Not for any injustice in mine hands._ A GOOD MAN’S CONFIDENCE In these words Job delivers us-- 1. The confidence of a godly man. 2. That kind of infirm anguish and indignation, that half-distempe...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 16:19 WITNESS... IN HEAVEN. Job either believes he already has an advocate in heaven or that God will eventually see he is blameless and declare him innocent. See Job 16:9
_JOB’S SECOND REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Complains of the want of sympathy on the part of his friends (Job 16:2). 1. _They gave him only verses from the ancients about the punishment of the wicked and the...
EXPOSITION Job answers the second speech of Eliphaz in a discourse which occupies two (short) chapters, and is thus not much more lengthy than the speech of his antagonist. His tone is very despairing...
So Job answered and said, I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all. Shall empty words (Job 16:1) Talking about vanity, he said, Shall empty words have an end? or what emboldens...
1 Samuel 12:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:10; 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Corinthians 11:31;...
Witness — Besides the witness of my conscience, God is witness of my integrity....