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Job 16:17

Not for any injustice i. e. though there is no wrong in my hands, cf. Isaiah 53:9. The first clause denies that he had done anything amiss in action; and the second affirms that his "prayer," i. e. his whole religious walk with God, was pure. The last words give a reply to the insinuations of Eliphaz, ch. Job 15:4, and the former to his allusion ch. Job 15:34.

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See also Job 16:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 16:17. _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 iniqu...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ _ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_ 2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6) 3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15) 4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 16:6 contain a bitter complaint of God's ferocity against Job, in spite of his innocence. The connexion of Job 16:6 with the context is not clear: RV translation is probably, however, correct. Wit...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    INJUSTICE. violence. Only occurrence of English word in O.T....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    NOT FOR ANY INJUSTICE, &C.— _Although there is not iniquity in my hands; although my prayers are pure before God._ Houbigant....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. Though innocent, he suffers the hostility of God and man. (Job 16:6-17) TEXT 16:6-17 6 THOUGH I SPEAK, MY GRIEF IS NOT ASSUAGED; And though I forbear, what am I eased? 7 But now he hath made me...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _NOT FOR ANY INJUSTICE IN MINE HANDS: ALSO MY PRAYER IS PURE._ Job here reform to Zophar's implied charge (Job 11:14). Nearly the same words occur as to Jesus Christ (Isaiah 53:9, "He had done no viol...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S FOURTH SPEECH (JOB 16:17) See introductory remarks on Job 15-21. 1-5. Job retorts scornfully that he too could offer such empty 'comfort' if he were in the friends' place....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    NOT FOR _any_ INJUSTICE] RV 'although there is no violence.' Cp. the suffering Servant of Jehovah in Isaiah 53:9....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 16 JOB REPLIES TO ELIPHAZ’S...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job’s troubles seemed to prove that Job was guilty (verse 8). Job’s friends believed this (Job 22:4-11). But the Bible does not teach this idea (John 9:1-3). Job was sure that he was innocent. And God...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    NOT FOR ANY INJUSTICE. — Literally, _for no injustice,_ just as in Isaiah 53:9 : “because he had done no violence,” should be “not because he had done any violence, or because deceit was in his mouth....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עַ֭ל לֹא ־חָמָ֣ס בְּ כַפָּ֑י וּֽ תְפִלָּתִ֥י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1; Job 17:1 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying term...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    TURNING FROM “MISERABLE COMFORTERS” UNTO GOD Job 16:1 With bitterness the sufferer turns from his comforters to God. As the r.v. makes clear, he says that if he were in their place and they in his,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Job immediately answered. His answer dealt less with the argument they suggested than before. While the darkness was still about him, and in some senses the agony of his soul was deepening, yet it is...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Not for [any] injustice in (q) mine hands: also my prayer (r) [is] pure. (q) Signifying that he is not able to understand the cause of this his grievous punishment. (r) That is, unfeigned and withou...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Dim. Hebrew and Septuagint, "covered with the shadow of death," (Haydock) greatly impaired. Some have almost lost their sight by weeping; and death seemed ready to close Job's eyes. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (7) But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. (8) And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NOT FOR [ANY] INJUSTICE IN MY HANDS,.... Came all those afflictions and calamities upon him, which occasioned so much sorrow, weeping, mourning, and humiliation; he does not say there was no sin in hi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Not for [any] injustice in mine hands: also my prayer [is] pure. Ver. 17. Not for any injustice (Heb. Violence or wrong doing) in my hands] Job could wash his hands of that rapine and bribery wherewi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Not for any justice in my hands_ And all this is not come upon me for any injurious dealing, but for other reasons, known to God only; _also my prayer is pure_ I do not cast off God's fear and servic...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Not for any injustice in mine hands, all this had come upon him although no violence clung to his hands, he was not guilty of gross wickedness; ALSO MY PRAYER IS PURE, it was made without hypocrisy, i...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB SHOWS THE PITIFULNESS OF HIS CASE AND MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB REPROVES THEIR HEARTLESSNESS (vv.1-5) Eliphaz had claimed to be giving Job "the consolations of God," and this moves Job to reply bitterly, "Miserable comforters are you all!" (v.2). Instead of...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    17-22 Job's condition was very deplorable; but he had the testimony of his conscience for him, that he never allowed himself in any gross sin. No one was ever more ready to acknowledge sins of infirm...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    And all this is not come upon me for any injurious dealing with others by oppression, or deceit, or bribery, wherewith I am implicitly charged, JOB 15:16,20,34; but for other reasons known to God only...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 16:17 violence H2555 hands H3709 prayer H8605 pure H2134 Not for - Job 11:14, Job 15:20,

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job charges that Eliphaz is but heaping up words. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: It is a great comfort to a good man who lies under the censures of brethren who do not un...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 16:2. _Miserable comforters are ye all._ The Vulgate, “burdensome comforters,” who afflicted instead of consoling their friend. Job 16:3. _Shall vain words have an end._ He plainly tells Eliphaz...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Not for any injustice in mine hands._ A GOOD MAN’S CONFIDENCE In these words Job delivers us-- 1. The confidence of a godly man. 2. That kind of infirm anguish and indignation, that half-distempe...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JOB’S SECOND REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Complains of the want of sympathy on the part of his friends (Job 16:2). 1. _They gave him only verses from the ancients about the punishment of the wicked and the...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Job answers the second speech of Eliphaz in a discourse which occupies two (short) chapters, and is thus not much more lengthy than the speech of his antagonist. His tone is very despairing...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So Job answered and said, I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all. Shall empty words (Job 16:1) Talking about vanity, he said, Shall empty words have an end? or what emboldens...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Timothy 2:8; Job 11:14; Job 15:20; Job 15:34; Job 21:27;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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, a...

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