Job 16:17

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

Related Commentaries of Job 16:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 an...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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 grie...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 16:6-17 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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. Not for any injustice - I must assert, even with my last breath, that the charges of...
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.
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 11:14-15 ). Nearly the same word...
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 'comfor...
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 .
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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Turning from “Miserable Comforters” unto God Job 16:1-22 With bitterness the sufferer turns from his comforters to God. As the r.v. makes clear...
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 sen...
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:...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Not for [any] injustice in my hands ,.... Came all those afflictions and calamities upon him, which occasioned so much sorrow, weeping, mourning, an...
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 cou...
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 pray...
L. 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,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Testimony of Conscience; Job's Comfort in Conscious Integrity. B. C. 1520....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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...
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 16:2-5 ). 1. They gave him only verses fro...
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 . S...
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 k...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job answers the second speech of Eliphaz in a discourse which occupies two (short) chapters, and is thus not much more lengthy than t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Shows The Pitifulness of his Case and Maintains his Innocence
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 2:8 ; Job 11:14 ; Job 15:20 ; Job 15:34 ; Job 21:27 ; Job 21:28 ; Job 22:5-9 ; Job 27:6 ; Job 27:7 ; Job 29:12-17 ; Job 31:1-40...
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...

¹⁷ Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

Related Commentaries of Job 16:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 16:17