Job 16:18
These things I have endured without iniquity in my hand, while I held pure prayers before God.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
In Context
17My face is swollen from weeping, and my eyelids have dimmed my vision.
19O earth, do not conceal my blood, nor let my outcry find a hiding place in you.
Cross References
Genesis 4:11Now, therefore, you will be cursed upon the land, which opened its mouth and received the blood of your brother at your hand.
Job 27:9Will God pay attention to his cry, when anguish overcomes him?
Isaiah 1:15And so, when you extend your hands, I will avert my eyes from you. And when you multiply your prayers, I will not heed you. For your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 58:9Then you will call, and the Lord will heed; you will cry out, and he will say, “Here I am,” if you take away the chains from your midst, and cease to point your finger and to speak what is not beneficial.
Ezekiel 24:7For her blood is in her midst; she has shed it upon the smoothest rock. She has not shed it upon the ground, so that it could be covered with dust.
Matthew Henry on Job 16:18-22
Testimony of Conscience; Job's Comfort in Conscious Integrity. ( b. c. 1520.) 17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. 18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. 19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. 20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! 22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. Job's… Read the whole commentary →