Job 16:17
Not because any violence is in my hands, and while my prayer is pure.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
In Context
16My face gloweth from weeping, and on my eyelids resteth the shadow of death:
18Earth! do thou not cover up my blood, and let no place restrain my cry.
Cross References
Job 11:14If wrong be in thy hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tents.
Job 15:34For the assembly of hypocrites will remain desolate, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
Job 22:5Is not thy evil great? and no end to thy iniquities?
Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, yea, that had none to help him.
Job 31:7If my step have turned aside from the [proper] way, and my heart have walked after my eyes, and if any blemish have cleaved to my hands:
Psalms 7:3(7:4) O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be injustice 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 →