Job 16:17
My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
In Context
16They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.
18Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Cross References
Job 11:14if there is any iniquity in your hands, put it far from you, and let not unrighteousness lodge in your habitation.
Job 15:34For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.
Job 22:5Is not your wickedness abundant, and your sins innumerable?
Job 29:12For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper.
Job 31:7if my foot has turned aside out of the way, or if my heart has followed my eye, and if too I have touched gifts with my hands;
Psalms 7:3O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands;) 1
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 →