Job 16:17
Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
Bible in Basic English
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 my eyes are becoming dark;
18O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!
Cross References
Job 11:14If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;
Job 15:34For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.
Job 22:5Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.
Job 29:12For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.
Job 31:7If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;
Psalms 7:3\7:2\So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.
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 →