Job 16:17
My face is swollen from weeping, and my eyelids have dimmed my vision.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
In Context
16I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and I have covered my body with ashes.
18These things I have endured without iniquity in my hand, while I held pure prayers before God.
Cross References
Job 11:14If you would send away from you the iniquity that is in your hand, and not let injustice remain in your tabernacle,
Job 15:34For the congregation of the hypocrites is fruitless, and fire will devour the tabernacles of those who love to accept money.
Job 22:5and not because of your many evil deeds and your infinite unfairness?
Job 29:12This was because I had freed the poor, who cried out, and the orphan, who had no helper.
Job 31:7If my steps have turned aside from the way, or if my heart has followed my eyes, or if a blemish has clung to my hands,
Psalms 7:3lest at any time, like a lion, he might seize my soul, while there is no one to redeem me, nor any who can save.
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 →