Job 16:17
Yet there was no injustice in my hands, 1 And my prayer is pure. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
In Context
16My belly has been parched with wailing, 1 And darkness is on my eyelids. 1
18Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, 1 And let my cry have no place. 1
Cross References
Job 11:14If there is any iniquity in thy hands, 1 Put it far from thee, 1 And let not unrighteousness lodge in thy habitation. 1
Job 15:34For death is the witness of an ungodly man, 1 And fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts. 1
Job 22:5Is not thy wickedness abundant, 1 And thy sins innumerable? 1
Job 29:12For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, 1 And helped the fatherless who had no helper. 1
Job 31:7If my foot has turned aside out of the way, 1 Or if my heart has followed mine eye, 1 And if too I have touched gifts with my hands; 1
Psalms 7:3Lest at any time the enemy seize my soul as a lion, 1 While there is none to ransom, nor to save. 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 →