Even now my witness is in heaven. My advocate is there on high.
Parallel translations
- WEB Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
- KJV Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
- BSB Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
- NKJV Surely even now my witness is in heaven, And my evidence is on high.
- NASB “Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And my advocate is on high.
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Quick answer
Job declares that even now his witness and advocate are in heaven. He appeals beyond his friends to a heavenly defender.
Overview
In a striking turn of faith, Job affirms that one in heaven vouches for him and testifies to his integrity. Amid feeling God to be his adversary, he reaches toward God as his witness and advocate. This longing for a heavenly mediator points to Christ, our advocate with the Father (1 John 2:1), who pleads the cause of his people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Rom 1:9For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
- 1 Th 2:10You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
- Gen 31:50If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”
- Ps 113:5Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,
- 1 Th 2:5For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
- Job 25:2“Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.
- 2 Cor 11:31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.
- 2 Cor 1:23But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.
- 1 Sam 12:5He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” They said, “He is witness.”
- Rom 9:1I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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