Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Howbeit there is no wickedness in my hands, and my prayer is clean.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Holman Bible
and my prayer is pure.
International Standard Version
even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure."
A Conservative Version
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
American Standard Version
Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
Amplified
Although there is no violence or wrongdoing in my hands,
And my prayer is pure.
Bible in Basic English
Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
Darby Translation
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Julia Smith Translation
Not for violence in my hands: and my prayer is clean.
King James 2000
Not for any violence in my hands: also my prayer is pure.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{although} violence [is] not on my hands, and my prayer [is] pure.
Modern King James verseion
though no violence is in my hand, and my prayer is pure.
NET Bible
although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.
New Heart English Bible
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
The Emphasized Bible
Though no violence was in my hands, and, my prayer, was pure.
Webster
Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure.
World English Bible
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Youngs Literal Translation
Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 16:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Everything Was Going Well
16 My face is swollen with weeping, and mine eyes are waxen dim. 17 "Howbeit there is no wickedness in my hands, and my prayer is clean. 18 O earth, cover not my blood, and let my crying find no room.
Cross References
Job 8:5-6
If thou wouldest now resort unto God betimes, and make thy humble prayer to the Almighty;
Job 11:14
if thou wouldst put away the wickedness which thou hast in hand, so that no ungodliness dwelt in thy house;
Job 15:20
The ungodly despaireth all the days of his life, and the number of a tyrant's years is unknown.
Job 15:34
For the congregation of hypocrites is unfruitful, and the fire shall consume the houses of such as are greedy to receive gifts.
Job 21:27-28
"But I know what ye think; yea, and what ye imagine against me unrighteously.
Job 22:5-9
Is not thy wickedness great, and thine ungracious deeds innumerable?
Job 27:6-7
My righteous dealing will I keep fast, and not forsake it; for my conscience reproveth me not in all my conversation.
Job 29:12-17
"For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help.
Job 31:1-40
I made a covenant with mine eyes, that I would not look upon a damsel.
Psalm 7:3-5
O LORD my God, if I have done any such thing, or if there be any wickedness in my hands,
Psalm 44:17-21
And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget thee, nor behave ourselves unfaithfully in thy covenant.
Psalm 66:18-19
If I incline unto wickedness with my heart, the LORD will not hear me.
Proverbs 15:8
The LORD abhorreth the sacrifice of the ungodly; but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable to him.
Isaiah 59:6
Their web maketh no cloth and they may not cover themselves with their labours. Their deeds are the deeds of wickedness, and the work of robbery is in their hands.
Jonah 3:8
And they put on sackcloth both man and beast, and cried unto God mightily, and turned every man from his wicked way, and from doing wrong in which they were accustomed, saying,
1 Timothy 2:8
I will, therefore, that the men pray every where, lifting up pure hands without wrath, or doubting.