Job 16:17
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
World English Bible Classic
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. Deep darkness is on my eyelids,
18“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
Cross References
Job 11:14If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
Job 15:34For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
Job 22:5Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
Job 29:12because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
Job 31:7if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
Psalms 7:3LORD, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in 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 →