Job 16:17

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

if there is any iniquity in thy hand and thou dost put it far away and dost not consent that wickedness dwell in thy habitations,

The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden from the violent.

Behold, I know your thoughts and the imaginations which ye devise against me.

Certainly thy wickedness is great and thine iniquities have no end.

I hold fast to my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless who had no one to help him.

O LORD my God, if I have done this: if there is iniquity in my hands,

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

if thou would seek God early and make thy supplication to the Almighty,

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

I desire, therefore, that the men in every place, pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and strife.