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Job 16:17 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. "
Job 16:17
Verse in Context
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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
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Job 16:1
"Then Job answered and said,"
Job 16:2
"I have heard many such things: miserable comforters"
Job 16:3
"Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?"
Job 16:4
"I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at"
Job 16:5
"But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage"
Job 16:6
"Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?"
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