New International Version
Job 16:17
17yet my hands have been free of 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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Yet I have done no wrong, and my prayer is pure.
Context of Job 16:17
15“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust. 16My face is red with weeping, dark shadows ring my eyes; yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure. 18“Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest! 19Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate 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 you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,
- Job 15:20All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.
- Job 21:27“I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
- Job 22:5Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless?
- Job 27:6I will maintain my innocence and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.
- Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to assist them.
- Job 31:1“I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman.
- Psalms 7:3Lord my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands—
- Psalms 44:17All this came upon us, though we had not forgotten you; we had not been false to your covenant.
- Job 8:5But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty,
- Psalms 66:18If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened;
- Proverbs 15:8The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.
- 1 Timothy 2:8Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or 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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