Job 16:17
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
KJV
Facies mea intumuit a fletu, et palpebræ meæ caligaverunt.
Vulgate
ἡ γαστήρ μου συνκέκαυται ἀπὸ κλαυθμοῦ, ἐπὶ δὲ βλεφάροις μου σκιά·
LXX
Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
ASV
עַ֭ל לֹא חָמָ֣ס בְּ/כַפָּ֑/י וּֽ/תְפִלָּתִ֥/י זַכָּֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
זָ֛ךְ
zk
adjective · 11×
חָמָ֖ס
chms
noun · 59×
י
y
noun · 77×
כַּ֥ף
kp
noun · 191×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Jas 4:8 — Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
- Job 4:6 — Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
- Job 8:5 — If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
- Job 8:6 — If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
- Job 13:15 — Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
- Job 27:6 — My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
- Job 33:9 — I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
- Job 34:5 — For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
- Prov 15:8 — The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
- Ps 66:18 — If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: