Job 16:17
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
In Context
16My face is reddened 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 desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
Job 22:5Is not thy wickedness great? And are not thine iniquities without end?
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 7:3(7-4) O LORD 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 →