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 off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.

'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.

Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.

Is not thy wickedness abundant? And there is no end to thine iniquities.

On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.

For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.

O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,

All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.

If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, The Lord doth not hear.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright is His delight.

I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;