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Job 16:19 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high. "
Job 16:19
Verse in Context
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17 although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18 “Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
20 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
21 that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
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Job 16:1
"Then Job answered,"
Job 16:2
"“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!"
Job 16:3
"Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?"
Job 16:4
"I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,"
Job 16:5
"but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you."
Job 16:6
"“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?"
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