American Standard Version
Job 16:17
17Although there is no violence in my hands,And my prayer is pure.
Job 16:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
- New International Version (NIV)yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.
- English Standard Version (ESV)although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Although no violence is in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
Context of Job 16:17
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust. 16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death; Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. 18O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have noresting-place. 19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that voucheth for me is on high.
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עַ֭ל לֹא־חָמָ֣ס בְּכַפָּ֑י וּֽתְפִלָּתִ֥י זַכָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 16:17
- Job 11:14If iniquity be in thy hand, put it far away, And let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents.
- Job 15:20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
- Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.
- Job 22:5Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.
- Job 27:6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproachmeso long as I live.
- Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.
- Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?
- Psalms 7:3O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands;
- Psalms 44:17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
- Job 8:5If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;
- Psalms 66:18If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear:
- Proverbs 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; But the prayer of the upright is his delight.
- 1 Timothy 2:8I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.
Commentaries on Job 16:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17Not for any injustice - I must assert, even with my last breath, that the charges of my friends against me are groundless. I am afflicted unto death, but not on account of my iniquities. Also my prayer is pure - I am no hypocrite, God knoweth.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17Not for any injustice - Still claiming that he does not deserve his sorrows, and that these calamities had not come upon him on account of any enormous sins, as his friends believed. My prayer is pure - My devotion; my worship of God is not hypocritical - as my friends maintain.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-22Verses 17-22 Job's condition was very deplorable; but he had the testimony of his conscience for him, that he never allowed himself in any gross sin. No one was ever more ready to acknowledge sins of infirmity. Eliphaz had charged him with hypocrisy in religion, but he specifies prayer, the great act of religion, and professes that in this he was pure, though not from all infirmity. He had a God to go to, who he doubted not took full notice of all his…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17Free of violence (Hebrew lo’-khamas): If violence is the meaning, Job might have been denying that he was a dangerous warrior who God should attack (16:12–14; see also Isaiah 59:6; Jonah 3:8). Contrary to Eliphaz’s accusation and Bildad’s assumption, Job’s prayer was sincere because he was innocent (Job 15:4–5; 8:6; Genesis 20:5; Isaiah 59:3).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-22SECOND SERIES. 2. (Job 13:4).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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