Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
⛓ Read Job 16 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Paul's solemn 'I call God for a witness to my soul' echoes Job's appeal, 'even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,' invoking God as the guarantor of one's truthfulness. The recourse to God-as-witness in self-defense against suspicion is the shared rhetorical move. Reasonable thematic coherence with the heavenly-witness motif.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
"My witness is in heaven, and he who vouches for me is on high" supplies an OT image of a heavenly advocate pleading one's case before God. This anticipates the Counselor/advocate (paraklētos) Christians have with the Father.
Low confidence