Job 16:17
yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
Majority Standard Bible
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 deep shadows ring my eyes;
18O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
Cross References
Job 11:14if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
Job 15:34For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
Job 22:5Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
Job 31:7If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,
Psalms 7:3O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on 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 →