Job 16:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 1:9 : 9 For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,
  • Rom 9:1 : 1 I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit,
  • 2 Cor 1:23 : 23 But God is my witness that it was in pity for you that I did not come to Corinth at that time.
  • 2 Cor 11:31 : 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be praise for ever, is witness that the things which I say are true.
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,
  • 1 Thess 2:10 : 10 You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;
  • Gen 31:50 : 50 If you are cruel to my daughters, or if you take other wives in addition to my daughters, then though no man is there to see, God will be the witness between us.
  • 1 Sam 12:5 : 5 Then he said, The Lord is witness against you, and the man on whom he has put the holy oil is witness this day that you have seen no wrong in me. And they said, He is witness.
  • Job 25:2 : 2 Rule and power are his; he makes peace in his high places.
  • Ps 113:5 : 5 Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,

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    20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

    21 So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.

  • Job 16:15-18
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    15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

    16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

    17 Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.

    18 O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!

  • Job 13:18-19
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    18 See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right.

    19 Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

  • Job 19:5-8
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    5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

    6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

    7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

    8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

  • Job 16:8-9
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    8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

    9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

  • Job 19:25-27
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    25 But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

    26 And ... without my flesh I will see God;

    27 Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

  • 19 If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

  • 23 If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!

  • 15 Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;

  • 12 Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!

  • 7 There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

  • 17 That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

  • 13 He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

  • 11 For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;

  • 19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • 2 Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

  • 16 For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

  • 19 You have seen my shame, how I was laughed at and made low; my haters are all before you.

  • 21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

  • 10 See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;

  • 12 Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

  • 20 But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.

  • 15 O Lord, you have knowledge: keep me in mind and come to my help, and give their right reward to those who are attacking me; take me not away, for you are slow to be angry: see how I have undergone shame because of you from all those who make little of your word;

  • 10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

  • 11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

  • 10 So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

  • 59 O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause.

  • 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • 12 But, O Lord of armies, testing the upright and seeing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them; for I have put my cause before you.

  • 5 Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.

  • 8 He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.

  • 28 Now then, let your eyes be turned to me, for truly I will not say what is false to your face.

  • 22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

  • 16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

  • 8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

  • 9 I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;

  • 19 But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.

  • 3 (For all my breath is still in me, and the spirit of God is my life;)

  • 50 Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.