The One Who Represents Mortals Before God

18-22 “O Earth, don’t cover up the wrong done to me!
    Don’t muffle my cry!
There must be Someone in heaven who knows the truth about me,
    in highest heaven, some Attorney who can clear my name—
My Champion, my Friend,
    while I’m weeping my eyes out before God.
I appeal to the One who represents mortals before God
    as a neighbor stands up for a neighbor.

“Only a few years are left
    before I set out on the road of no return.”

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19 Even now my witness(A) is in heaven;(B)
    my advocate is on high.(C)
20 My intercessor(D) is my friend[a](E)
    as my eyes pour out(F) tears(G) to God;
21 on behalf of a man he pleads(H) with God
    as one pleads for a friend.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:20 Or My friends treat me with scorn