Tree of Life Version
Job 16:17
17yet 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 King James Version (NKJV)Although no violence is in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
Context of Job 16:17
15“I have sewn sackcloth over my skin and sunk my horn in the dust; 16my face is red from weeping, and on my eyelids are deep darkness; yet no violence is in my hands and my prayer is pure. 18“Earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry find no resting place! 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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 16:17
- Job 11:14if you put away the wickedness that is in your hand, and allow no iniquity to abide in your tent,
- Job 15:20All his days the wicked suffers torment, and numbered are the years stored up for the tyrant.
- Job 21:27“Behold, I know your thoughts, the schemes by which you wrong me.
- Job 22:5Is not your wickedness great, and is there no end to your iniquity?
- Job 27:6I will maintain my righteousness, and not let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for any of my days.
- Job 29:12for I saved the poor who cried for help, and the orphan who had no one to help him;
- Job 31:1“I made a covenant with my eyes not to pay attention to a virgin.
- Psalms 7:3Otherwise he will rip me apart like a lion, with no one to rescue me.
- Psalms 44:17because of the sound of taunting and reviling from the face of a vengeful enemy.
- Job 8:5If you would seek God and plead with Shaddai,
- 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 Adonai, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.
- 1 Timothy 2:8So I desire all men to pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without anger and 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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