Job 16:17
Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer [is] pure.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
In Context
16My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids [is] death-shade.
18O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.
Cross References
Job 11:14If iniquity [is] in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.
Job 15:34For the company of the profane [is] gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.
Job 22:5Is not thy wickedness abundant? And there is no end to thine iniquities.
Job 29:12For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.
Job 31:7If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,
Psalms 7:3O Jehovah, 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 →