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Verse Job 16:19. _MY WITNESS_ IS _IN HEAVEN_] I appeal to God for my
innocence....
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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
retu...
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CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ
_ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_
2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6)
3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15)
4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...
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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 that...
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Job 16:18 to Job 17:9. Job, dying a martyr's death, beseeches God that
He would uphold his right with God and against men, and give him a
pledge that He will make his innocence appear
In Job 16:12 Jo...
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If his blood is to cry with an unceasing voice for reparation until it
find it, there must be some one to take up the cry and see reparation
made. Job is assured that already he has such a Witness and...
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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 with...
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3. He must be vindicated by a heavenly witness. (Job 16:18-22)
TEXT 16:18-22
18 O EARTH, COVER NOT THOU MY BLOOD,
And let my cry have no _resting-place._
19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heav...
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_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 - Hebrew,...
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16:19 he (c-11) i.e. God....
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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....
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ALSO NOW] RV 'Even now.' MY RECORD] RV 'he that voucheth for me.'...
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Job’s words in verses 7–18 seemed hopeless. But then Job spoke
about his ‘friend’. Job did not say who this friend was. But Job
did not mean Eliphaz, Bildad or Zophar. This friend was in heaven. He
wa...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 16
JOB REPLIES TO ELIPHAZ’S...
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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
wonderful...
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גַּם ־עַ֭תָּה הִנֵּה ־בַ † שָּׁמַ֣יִם
עֵדִ֑י...
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XIV.
"MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN"
Job 16:1; Job 17:1
Job SPEAKS
IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the
doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying term...
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TURNING FROM “MISERABLE COMFORTERS” UNTO GOD
Job 16:1
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 in
his,...
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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...
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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....
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_In thee. Let the cry of my blood, which issues from my wounds, and
the injury which my reputation has suffered, come before the throne of
God. Calumny is a species of murder. See Genesis iv. 10. (Cal...
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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. (21) O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pl...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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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 of
m...
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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 conscience...
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_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 lit...
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Also now, behold, my Witness is in heaven, and my Record, He who
attested to his innocence, IS ON HIGH, even though all appearances are
now against him....
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JOB SHOWS THE PITIFULNESS OF HIS CASE AND MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE...
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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 of...
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ON HIGH:
_ Heb._ in the high places...
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"EVEN NOW, BEHOLD, MY WITNESS IS IN HEAVEN, AND MY ADVOCATE IS ON
HIGH": Job was confident that there was someone in heaven who would
tell the truth about him and testify on his behalf. Is this. refer...
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17-22 Job's condition was very deplorable; but he had the testimony
of his conscience for him, that he never allowed himself in any gross
sin. No one was ever more ready to acknowledge sins of infirm...
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Besides the witness of men and of my own conscience, God is witness of
my integrity....
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CONTENTS: Job charges that Eliphaz is but heaping up words.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends.
CONCLUSION: It is a great comfort to a good man who lies under the
censures of brethren who do not un...
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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 Eliphaz...
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_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-distempe...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 16:19 WITNESS... IN HEAVEN. Job either believes he
already has an advocate in heaven or that God will eventually see he
is blameless and declare him innocent. See Job 16:9
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_JOB’S SECOND REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_
I. Complains of the want of sympathy on the part of his friends (Job
16:2).
1. _They gave him only verses from the ancients about the punishment
of the wicked and the...
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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 despairing...
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So Job answered and said, I have heard many such things: miserable
comforters are you all. Shall empty words (Job 16:1)
Talking about vanity, he said,
Shall empty words have an end? or what emboldens...
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1 Samuel 12:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:10; 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Corinthians
11:31;...
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Witness — Besides the witness of my conscience, God is witness of my
integrity....