New King James Version
Job 16:17
17Although no violence is 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 Living Translation (NLT)Yet I have done no wrong, and my prayer is pure.
Context of Job 16:17
15“I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, And laid my head in the dust. 16My face is flushed from weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death; Although no violence is in my hands, And my prayer is pure. 18“O earth, do not cover my blood, And let my cry have no resting place! 19Surely even now my witness is in heaven, And my evidence 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 were in your hand, and you put it far away, And would not let wickedness dwell in your tents;
- Job 15:20The wicked man writhes with pain all his days, And the number of years is hidden from the oppressor.
- Job 21:27“Look, I know your thoughts, And the schemes with which you would wrong me.
- Job 22:5Is not your wickedness great, And your iniquity without end?
- Job 27:6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; My heart shall not reproach me as long as I live.
- Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor who cried out, The fatherless and the one who had no helper.
- Job 31:1“I have made a covenant with my eyes; Why then should I look upon a young woman?
- Psalms 7:3O Lord my God, if I have done this: If there is iniquity in my hands,
- Psalms 44:17All this has come upon us; But we have not forgotten You, Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.
- Job 8:5If you would earnestly seek God And make your 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 the Lord, But the prayer of the upright is His delight.
- 1 Timothy 2:8I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting;
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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