Job 16:17

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

if iniquity [is] in your hand, put it far away, and you must not let wickedness reside in your tents--

"All of the wicked [one's] days he is writhing, even [through] the number of years that are laid up for the tyrant.

"Look, I know your thoughts and [the] schemes you devise against me.

[Is] not your wickedness great, and there is no end to your iniquities?

I hold fast to my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart will not blame [any] of my days.

because I saved [the] needy who cried for help, and [I saved] [the] orphan for whom [there was] no helper.

O Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.

If you yourself would seek God, then you would plead to Shaddai for grace.

If I had considered evil in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination of Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight.

Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and dispute.