Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Holman Bible
and my prayer is pure.
International Standard Version
even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure."
A Conservative Version
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
American Standard Version
Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
Amplified
Although there is no violence or wrongdoing in my hands,
And my prayer is pure.
Bible in Basic English
Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
Darby Translation
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Julia Smith Translation
Not for violence in my hands: and my prayer is clean.
King James 2000
Not for any violence in my hands: also my prayer is pure.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{although} violence [is] not on my hands, and my prayer [is] pure.
Modern King James verseion
though no violence is in my hand, and my prayer is pure.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Howbeit there is no wickedness in my hands, and my prayer is clean.
NET Bible
although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.
New Heart English Bible
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
The Emphasized Bible
Though no violence was in my hands, and, my prayer, was pure.
Webster
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.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 16:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Everything Was Going Well
16 My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids is death-shade. 17 Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. 18 O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.
Cross References
Job 8:5-6
If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,
Job 11:14
If iniquity is in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.
Job 15:20
'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
Job 15:34
For the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.
Job 21:27-28
Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.
Job 22:5-9
Is not thy wickedness abundant? And there is no end to thine iniquities.
Job 27:6-7
On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.
Job 29:12-17
For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.
Job 31:1-40
A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what -- do I attend to a virgin?
Psalm 7:3-5
O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,
Psalm 44:17-21
All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.
Psalm 66:18-19
Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, The Lord doth not hear.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright is His delight.
Isaiah 59:6
Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works are works of iniquity, And a deed of violence is in their hands.
Jonah 3:8
and cover themselves with sackcloth let man and beast, and let them call unto God mightily, and let them turn back each from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
1 Timothy 2:8
I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;