Job 16:17
Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
American Standard Version
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 thou my blood, And let my cry have no [resting] -place.
Cross References
Job 11:14If iniquity be in thy hand, put it far away, And let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents.
Job 15:34For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
Job 22:5Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.
Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.
Job 31:7If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands:
Psalms 7:3O Jehovah 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 →