The Meaning of Job 16:19 Explained

Job 16:19

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

YLT: Also, now, lo, in the heavens is my witness, And my testifier in the high places.

Darby: Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.

ASV: Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that voucheth for me is on high.

Discover Job 16:19

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 16:19?

MEANING: What does Job 16:19 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 16:19 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 16:19?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 16:19 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 16:1-22 - Turning From "miserable Comforters" Unto God
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, instead of joining words together and evincing the pride of the immaculate, he would set himself to speak strengthening words and to assuage their grief by tender sympathy.
He compares his pains to the attack of a wild beast, Job 16:7-14; and from this he proceeds to describe the anguish of his grief, Job 16:15-20. But toward the end of the chapter a new thought begins to shape itself; and from his lowest despair he catches sight of a Vindicator and a vindication that must someday be his. Job 16:21 should be read as in the r.v., margin. Job wanted a son of man to plead for him; and his prayer has been more than answered in the Son of man, who pleads for us "not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an indissoluble life," Hebrews 7:16. "O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul," Lamentations 3:58. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 16

1  Job reproves his friends for unmercifulness
17  He maintains his innocence

What do the individual words in Job 16:19 mean?

Even now surely in heaven my witness [is] and my evidence [is] on high
גַּם־ עַ֭תָּה הִנֵּה־ בַשָּׁמַ֣יִם עֵדִ֑י וְ֝שָׂהֲדִ֗י בַּמְּרוֹמִֽים

גַּם־  Even 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: גַּם  
Sense: also, even, indeed, moreover, yea.
עַ֭תָּה  now 
Parse: Adverb
Root: עַתָּה  
Sense: now.
הִנֵּה־  surely 
Parse: Interjection
Root: הִנֵּה  
Sense: behold, lo, see, if.
בַשָּׁמַ֣יִם  in  heaven 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine plural
Root: שָׁמַיִם  
Sense: heaven, heavens, sky.
עֵדִ֑י  my  witness  [is] 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: עֵד  
Sense: witness.
וְ֝שָׂהֲדִ֗י  and  my  evidence  [is] 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: שָׂהֵד  
Sense: witness.
בַּמְּרוֹמִֽים  on  high 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine plural
Root: מָרֹום  
Sense: height.

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