Job 16:20
For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- ecce enim in cælo testis meus, et conscius meus in excelsis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ νῦν ἰδοὺ ἐν οὐρανοῖς ὁ μάρτυς μου, ὁ δὲ συνίστωρ μου ἐν ὑψίστοις.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Job 16:19
- גַּם עַ֭תָּה הִנֵּה בַשָּׁמַ֣יִם עֵדִ֑י וְ֝שָׂהֲדִ֗י בַּמְּרוֹמִֽים
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Aphrahat Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations, Of Death and the Latter Times
10. Remember, my beloved, and compare and consider in thy mind, who is there of former generations who has been left in this world so as to continue for ever? Death has led away the former generations, the great ones and the mighty and the subtle. Who is there that acquired great possessions, and at the time when he departed took them with him? That which was gathered together from the earth returns back into its bosom; and naked does a man depart from his possessions. The wise, when they acquire goods, send some of them before them, as Job said: My witnesses are heaven; and again: My brethren and my lovers are with God . And our Lord commanded them that acquire possessions to make for themselves friends in heaven, and also to lay up treasures there.