Job 16:17
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
Webster's Revision
Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure.
World English Bible
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Although there is no violence in mine hands, and my prayer is pure.
Clarke's Job 16:17 Bible Commentary
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.
Barnes's Job 16:17 Bible Commentary
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.
Wesley's Job 16:17 Bible Commentary
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.
