Job 16:8

No place] RV 'no resting place.' Let it be heard everywhere!

19-21. Rejected by men who count him guilty, Job is for a moment cheered with a bright vision of a 'witness in heaven,' one who will vouch for and testify to his innocence (Job 16:19). From Job 16:20 RV it is supposed that Job has an intuition that the God who now seems to be his enemy is after all the God of love, in communion with whom his past life has been spent, and to Him he turns:

'But thou giv'st leave, dear Lord, that we Take shelter from Thyself in Thee; And with the wings of Thine own Dove Fly to the sceptre of soft love.' (Crashaw, quoted by cheyne.)

We see here a development of the idea of a 'daysman' or mediator first mentioned in Job 9:33. There it appears as a longing impossible to be realised. In this chapter it turns into a definite hope, and in Job 19:25 it rises to a certainty. It is evident from Job 16:22; Job 17:1; Job 17:13 that Job does not expect this vindication before his death, which seems at hand.