Job 16:17

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Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;

All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.

Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.

Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities without end?

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart reproacheth me not one of my days.

For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.

Jehovah my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands;

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely against thy covenant:

If thou seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,

Had I regarded iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not hear.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning.