Job 16:17
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 16 connects to 10 cross-references. Job calls his friends 'miserable comforters' and says he could speak as they do if their positions were reversed. He describes God as his adversary who has handed him over to the ungodly. Yet amid despair he appeals to his …
Other Translations
Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer <FI>is<Fi> pure.
Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
Cross References
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, …
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as …
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?