Job 16:17
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Darby Translation
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 on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
18O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!
Cross References
Job 11:14If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;
Job 15:34For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
Job 22:5Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities without end?
Job 29:12For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
Job 31:7If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;
Psalms 7:3Jehovah 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 →