English 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Although no violence is in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Yet I have done no wrong, and my prayer is pure.
Context of Job 16:17
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust. 16My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness, although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. 18"O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place. 19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high.
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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 iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not injustice dwell in your tents.
- Job 15:20The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
- Job 21:27"Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.
- Job 22:5Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.
- Job 27:6I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
- Job 29:12because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
- Job 31:1"I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?
- Psalms 7:3O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,
- Psalms 44:17All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.
- Job 8:5If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy,
- Psalms 66:18If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
- Proverbs 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
- 1 Timothy 2:8I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
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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