Job 16:18-21

New International Reader's Version

¹⁸ “Earth, please don’t cover up my blood!
    May God always hear my cry for help!
¹⁹ Even now my witness is in heaven.
    The one who speaks up for me is there.
²⁰ My go-between is my friend
    as I pour out my tears to God.
²¹ He makes his appeal to God to help me
    as a person pleads for a friend.