“ Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.c ”
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...
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.
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...
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...
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. My witness is in heaven - I appeal to God for my innocence.
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 -...
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.
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 wond...
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again i...
Turning from “Miserable Comforters” unto God Job 16:1-22 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...
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...
(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 p...
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 o...
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 conscien...
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 li...
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...
Testimony of Conscience; Job's Comfort in Conscious Integrity. B. C. 1520. 17 Not for...
Besides the witness of men and of my own conscience, God is witness of my integrity.
JOB’S SECOND REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Complains of the want of sympathy on the part of his friends ( Job 16:2-5 ). 1. They gave him only verses from the ancients about the punishment of the wicked...
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 Eli...
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-d...
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 desp...
Job Shows The Pitifulness of his Case and Maintains his Innocence
1 Samuel 12:5 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:10 ; 2 Corinthians 1:23 ; 2 Corinthians 11:31 ; Job 25:2 ; Psalms 113:5 ; Romans 1:9 ; Romans 9:1
Witness — Besides the witness of my conscience, God is witness of my integrity.