Job 16:17
Yet is there no injustice in my bands. And my prayer hath been pure.
Noyes 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 upon my eyelids is deathlike darkness.
18O earth! cover not thou my blood, And let there be no hiding-place for my cry!
Cross References
Job 11:14If thou put away iniquity from thy hand, And let not wickedness dwell in thy habitation,—
Job 15:34The house of the unrighteous shall be famished, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
Job 22:5Hath not thy wickedness been great? Have not thine iniquities been numberless?
Job 29:12For I delivered the poor, when they cried; And the fatherless, who had none to help him.
Job 31:7If my steps have turned aside from the way, And my heart gone after mine eyes, Or if any stain hath cleaved to my hand,
Psalms 7:3O Jehovah, my God! if I have done this,—If there be iniquity upon 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 →