Job 16:17
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
King James Version
In Context
16My face is foul with weeping, and my eyelids is the shadow of death;
18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
Cross References
Job 11:14If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Job 15:34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Job 22:5Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Job 31:7If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
Psalms 7:3O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be 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 →