Job 16:17
All this has happened to me even though I have not acted violently toward anyone, and I always pray sincerely/honestly to God.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
In Context
16My face is red because I have cried very much, and there are dark circles around my eyes.
Cross References
Job 11:14If you have done evil things, stop doing them; and do not allow any people in your house to do wicked things.
Job 15:34Wicked/godless people will not have any descendants, and fires will completely burn up the homes of those who built those homes using money they received from bribes.
Job 22:5No, it certainly must be [RHQ] because you are extremely wicked. It must be that the evil things that you have done are so many that no one can count them!
Job 29:12because I had helped the poor people when they cried out for help and I aided/helped orphans who had no one else to help them.
Job 31:7If it were true that I have stopped living righteously, or that I [SYN] have desired the things that I look at [MTY], or that I am guilty of any other sin,
Psalms 7:3Yahweh my God, if I have done anything that is wrong,
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 →