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19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

Job 16:19

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

  • The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

  • If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.

  • Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

  • Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-22)

Job’s condition was very deplorable; but had he nothing to support him, nothing to comfort him? Yes, and he here tells us what it was. I. He had the testimony of his conscience for him that he had walked uprightly, and had never allowed himself in any gross sin. None was ever more ready than he to acknowledge his sins of infirmity; but, upon search, he could not charge himself with any enormous cr…

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