Christian Standard Bible
Job 16:17
17although my hands are free from violence 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 sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my strength in the dust. 16My face has grown red with weeping, and darkness covers my eyes, although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure. 18Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help find no resting place. 19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is in the heights!
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עַ֭ל לֹא־חָמָ֣ס בְּכַפָּ֑י וּֽתְפִלָּתִ֥י זַכָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 16:17
- Job 11:14if there is iniquity in your hand, remove it, and don’t allow injustice to dwell in your tents —
- Job 15:20A wicked person writhes in pain all his days, throughout the number of years reserved for the ruthless.
- Job 21:27I know your thoughts very well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
- Job 22:5Isn’t your wickedness abundant and aren’t your iniquities endless?
- Job 27:6I will cling to my righteousness and never let it go. My conscience will not accuse me as long as I live!
- Job 29:12For I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.
- Job 31:1I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I look at a young woman?
- Psalms 7:3Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is injustice on my hands,
- Psalms 44:17All this has happened to us, but we have not forgotten you or betrayed your covenant.
- Job 8:5But if you earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
- Psalms 66:18If I had been aware of malice in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
- Proverbs 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
- 1 Timothy 2:8Therefore, I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument.
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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