(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 pleadeth for his neighbour! (22) When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
But the greatest beauty of Job's discourse, and what I would above every other call upon the Reader to remark with me is, the earnest longing contained in the close of his address, in which he is so passionately looking out for the Mediator. Let the Reader look over again and again what Job here saith, Oh that one might plead for a man with God! Then let him see that prayer answered, in the appointment of JESUS, as our Great High Priest and Intercessor; and then let him determine for himself, (for to his own heart under the blessed SPIRIT'S teaching, I leave the subject for decision), whether Job had not an eye to JESUS; who is not only our Advocate with the FATHER, but is such in the very way which Job desired, even as the man CHRIST JESUS pleading for his neighbor, his poor brethren, his kinsmen after the flesh, and whom he is not ashamed to call brethren. Hebrews 2:11.