Job 16:17 {18}
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These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God.

Not for

Job 11:14 If thou wilt put away from thee the iniquity that is in thy hand, and let not injustice remain in thy tabernacle:

Job 15:20,34 The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain. . . .

Job 21:27,28 Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me. . . .

Job 22:5-9 And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities? . . .

Job 27:6,7 My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life. . . .

Job 29:12-17 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper. . . .

Job 31:1 I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.

*etc:

Psalm 7:3-5 O Lord, my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in my hands: . . .

Psalm 44:17-21 At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor. . . .

my prayer

Job 8:5,6 Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty: . . .

Psalm 66:18,19 If I have looked at iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. . . .

Proverbs 15:8 The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.

1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.

Context
Job Decries his Comforters
16My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim. 17These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God.18O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee.…
Cross References
Job 16:18
O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee.

Job 27:4
My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.

Job 33:9
I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.

Isaiah 59:6
Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are unprofitable works, and the work of iniquity is in their hands.

Jonah 3:8
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive, from the mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor beasts, oxen, nor sheep taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water.

Lexicon
yet
עַ֭ל (‘al)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

my hands
בְּכַפָּ֑י (bə·ḵap·pāy)
Preposition-b | Noun - fdc | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3709: Hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot), a pan

are free of
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

violence
חָמָ֣ס (ḥā·mās)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2555: Violence, wrong, by meton, unjust gain

and my prayer
וּֽתְפִלָּתִ֥י (ū·ṯə·p̄il·lā·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 8605: Intercession, supplication, a hymn

is pure.
זַכָּֽה׃ (zak·kāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2134: Pure, clean


Additional Translations
yet my hands are free of violence 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.

My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.

Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

Although there is no violence in mine 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.

Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
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