Job 16:19

Even now my witness ¹  is in heaven; my advocate ²  is on high.

1Sa 12:5; Job 25:2; Ps 113:5; Ro 1:9; Ro 9:1; 2Co 1:23; 2Co 11:31; 1Th 2:10

¹ sn The witness in heaven must be God, to whom the cries and prayers come. Job’s dilemma is serious, but common to the human experience: the hostility of God toward him is baffling, but he is conscious of his innocence and can call on God to be his witness.

² tn The parallelism now uses the Aramaic word “my advocate” – the one who testifies on my behalf. The word again appears in Gen 31:47 for Laban’s naming of the “heap of witness” in Aramaic – “Sahadutha.”