Verse 19
Job 16:19
King James Version
19
Also now, behold, my witness
is in heaven, and my record
is on high.
Original Language Text
hebrew
גַּם עַ֭תָּה הִנֵּה בַ/שָּׁמַ֣יִם עֵדִ֑/י וְ֝/שָׂהֲדִ֗/י בַּ/מְּרוֹמִֽים
English Translation
Now behold, in the heavens are my witnesses, and I testify in the heights.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 16 Context
1
Then Job answered and said,
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I have heard many such things: miserable comforters
are ye all.
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Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
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I also could speak as ye
do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you...
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But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage
your grief.
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Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and
though I forbear, what am I eased?
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But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
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And thou hast filled me with wrinkles,
which is a witness
against me: and my leanness rising up in m...
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9
He teareth
me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth...
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10
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they ha...
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God (Elohim) hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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12
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken
me by my neck, and shaken me to pie...
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13
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out...
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He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
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16
My face is foul with weeping, and my eyelids is the shadow of death;
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Not for
any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer
is pure.
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18
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
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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 (Elohim).
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Oh that one might plead for a man with God (Elohim), as a man
pleadeth
for his neighbour!
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When a few years are come, then I shall go the way
whence
I shall not return.
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