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Selected Verse: Job 16:17 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Job 16:17 |
Strong Concordance |
Not for any injustice [02555] in mine hands [03709]: also my prayer [08605] is pure [02134]. |
|
King James |
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Not for any injustice ... - Still claiming that he does not deserve his sorrows, and that these calamities had not come upon him on account of any enormous sins, as his friends believed.
My prayer is pure - My devotion; my worship of God is not hypocritical - as my friends maintain. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Not - And all this is not come upon me for any injurious dealing, but for other reasons known to God only. Pure - I do not cast off God's fear and service, Job 15:4. I do still pray and worship God, and my prayer is accompanied with a sincere heart. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Not for any injustice - I must assert, even with my last breath, that the charges of my friends against me are groundless. I am afflicted unto death, but not on account of my iniquities.
Also my prayer is pure - I am no hypocrite, God knoweth. |
4 Yea, thou castest off [06565] fear [03374], and restrainest [01639] prayer [07881] before [06440] God [0410].