Job 16:17
Though no violence was in my hands, and, my prayer, was pure.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
In Context
16My face, is reddened from weeping, and, upon mine eyelashes, is the death-shade:—
18O earth! do not cover my blood, and let there be no place for mine outcry.
Cross References
Job 11:14If, iniquity, be in thy hand, Put it far away, and let there not dwell in thy tents perversity,
Job 15:34For, the family of the impious, is unfruitful, and, a fire, hath devoured the tents of bribery;
Job 22:5Is not, thy wickedness, great? and, without end, [are not] thine iniquities?
Job 29:12Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;
Job 31:7If my goings have swerved from the way,—and, after mine eyes, hath gone my heart, and, to my hands, hath adhered any stain,
Psalms 7:3O Yahweh my God, If I have done this, If there hath been perversity 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 →