| Job 16:17 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | although my hands have done nothing violent, and my prayer is sincere.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. |
| ASV: | Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. |
| BBE: | Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean. |
| DBY: | Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. |
| ERV: | Although there is no violence in mine hands, and my prayer is pure. |
| JPS: | Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. |
| WBS: | Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure. |
| WEB: | Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. |
| YLT: | Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. |
| Job 16:17 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 27:4 My lips certainly will not speak unjustly, Nor will my tongue mutter deceit.
Isaiah 59:6 Their webs will not become clothing, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And an act of violence is in their hands.
Jonah 3:8 "But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 16:17 Not for [any] injustice in {q} mine hands: also my prayer {r} [is] pure.
(q) Signifying that he is not able to understand the cause of this his grievous punishment.
(r) That is, unfeigned and without hypocrisy. |
| WES: | 16:17 Not - And all this is not come upon me for any injurious dealing, but for other reasons known to God only. Pure - I do not cast off God's fear and service, chap.15:4. I do still pray and worship God, and my prayer is accompanied with a sincere heart. |
| MHC: | 16:17-22 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 sorrows. Those who pour out tears before God, though they cannot plead for themselves, by reason of their defects, have a Friend to plead for them, even the Son of man, and on him we must ground all our hopes of acceptance with God. To die, is to go the way whence we shall not return. We must all of us, very certainly, and very shortly, go this journey. Should not then the Saviour be precious to our souls? And ought we not to be ready to obey and to suffer for his sake? If our consciences are sprinkled with his atoning blood, and testify that we are not living in sin or hypocrisy, when we go the way whence we shall not return, it will be a release from prison, and an entrance into everlasting happiness. |
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