Job 16:17
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
In Context
16My face is red with weeping, and the shadow of death is on my eyelids,
18O earth, do not cover thou my blood, and let my cry have no [resting] place.
Cross References
Job 11:14if iniquity is in thy hand, put it far away, and let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents.
Job 15:34For the company of the hypocrites shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
Job 22:5Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.
Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor who cried, also the fatherless who had none to help him.
Job 31:7if my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,
Psalms 7:3O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands,
Matthew Henry on Job 16:7-17
Grievances of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? 7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. 8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. 9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the… Read the whole commentary →