Job 16:17

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

if iniquity is in thy hand, put it far away, and let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents.

The wicked man travails with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices with which ye would wrong me.

Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.

I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.

Because I delivered the poor who cried, also the fatherless who had none to help him.

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

All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee, nor have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

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

If I regard iniquity in my heart, LORD will not hear.

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

I desire therefore the men to pray in every place, lifting up devout hands, apart from anger and argument.