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Job 16:17
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Yet I have done no wrong, and my prayer is pure.
Although there is no violence in mine hands, and my prayer is pure.
Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
Yet my hands have never done anything cruel, and my prayer is pure.
although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.
Not for [any] injustice in my hands: also my prayer [is] pure.
Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
Although there is no violence or wrongdoing in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Y suffride these thingis with out wickidnesse of myn hond, `that is, werk, whanne Y hadde cleene preieris to God.
yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
though I am not violent, and my prayers are sincere.
Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
Yet my hands are free from violence, and my prayer is pure.
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
I was never cruel to anyone, and my prayers are pure.
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Not for any iniustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
But my hands have done nothing bad, and my prayer is pure.
though there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Though there be no wickednesse in mine hands, and my prayer be pure.
But not for any iniquity in my hands; my prayer also is pure.
but I am not guilty of any violence, and my prayer to God is sincere.
Though no violence was in my hands, and, my prayer, was pure.
(16-18) These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God.
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Howbeit there is no wickednesse in my handes, but my prayer is cleane.
My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.
although my hands are free from violenceand my prayer is pure.
Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
although violence is not on my hands, and my prayer is pure.
though no violence is in my hand, and my prayer is pure.
Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer [is] pure.
Howbeit there is no wickednesse in my hondes, and my prayer is clene.
Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
Although no violence is in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
Why?—because there is no violence in my hands,And my prayer is pure.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Not for: Job 11:14, Job 15:20, Job 15:34, Job 21:27, Job 21:28, Job 22:5-9, Job 27:6, Job 27:7, Job 29:12-17, Job 31:1-40, Psalms 7:3-5, Psalms 44:17-21
my prayer: Job 8:5, Job 8:6, Psalms 66:18, Psalms 66:19, Proverbs 15:8, 1 Timothy 2:8
Reciprocal: Job 4:6 - the uprightness Job 9:17 - without cause Job 13:15 - but I will Job 19:7 - I cry Job 33:9 - clean Job 34:5 - I Job 35:2 - My James 4:8 - Cleanse
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Not for [any] injustice in my hands,.... Came all those afflictions and calamities upon him, which occasioned so much sorrow, weeping, mourning, and humiliation; he does not say there was no sin in him, not any in his heart, nor in his life, nor any iniquity done by him, he had acknowledged these things before, Job 7:20; but that there was nothing in his hands gotten in an unjust manner; he had taken away no man's property, nor injured him in the least in a private way; nor had he perverted justice as a public magistrate, by taking bribes or accepting persons, and could challenge any to prove he had, as Samuel did, 1 Samuel 12:3;
also my prayer [is] pure: he prayed, which disproves the calumny of Eliphaz, Job 15:4; and his prayer was pure too; not that it was free from failings and infirmities, which attend the best, but from hypocrisy and deceit; it came not out of feigned lips, but was put up in sincerity and truth; it sprang from an heart purified by the grace of God, and sprinkled from an evil conscience; it was put up in the faith of Christ, and as a pure offering through him; Job lifted up pure and holy hands, and with these a pure and holy heart, and for pure and holy things; so that it was not for want of doing justice to men, nor for want of devotion towards God, that be was thus afflicted by him; compare with this what is said of his antitype, Isaiah 53:9.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Not 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.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 16:17. Not 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.
