Job 16:17
My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
In Context
16I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.
18These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God.
Cross References
Job 11:14If thou wilt put away from thee the iniquity that is in thy hand, and lot not injustice remain in thy tabernacle:
Job 15:34For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.
Job 22:5And not for thy manifold wickedness, and thy infinite iniquities?
Job 29:12Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.
Job 31:7If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:
Psalms 7:3Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to 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 →