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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 rolled 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 my blood, and let there be no place for my cry! 19Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.
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עַ֭ל לֹא־חָמָ֣ס בְּכַפָּ֑י וּֽתְפִלָּתִ֥י זַכָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 16:17
- Job 11:14If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;
- Job 15:20All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.
- Job 21:27Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
- Job 22:5Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities without end?
- Job 27:6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart reproacheth [me] not one of my days.
- Job 29:12For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
- Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?
- Psalms 7:3Jehovah 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 against thy covenant:
- Job 8:5If thou seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
- Psalms 66:18Had I regarded iniquity in my heart, the Lord would 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 will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning.
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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