Job 16:17
Though there be no wickednesse in mine hands, and my prayer be pure.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
In Context
16My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,
18O earth, couer not thou my blood, and let my crying finde no place.
Cross References
Job 11:14If iniquitie be in thine hand, put it farre away, and let no wickednesse dwell in thy Tabernacle.
Job 15:34For the congregation of the hypocrite shalbe desolate, and fire shall deuoure the houses of bribes.
Job 22:5Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?
Job 29:12For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.
Job 31:7If my steppe hath turned out of the way, or mine heart hath walked after mine eye, or if any blot hath cleaued to mine handes,
Psalms 7:3O Lord my God, if I haue done this thing, if there be any wickednes in mine handes,
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 →