Job 16:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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 words occur as to Jesus Christ (Isaiah 53:9, "He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth"). So Job 16:10 above answers to the description of Jesus Christ (Psalms 22:13; Isaiah 50:6, "I give my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair;" and Job 16:4 to Psalms 22:7). He alone realized what Job aspired after-namely, outward righteousness of acts and inward purity of devotion. Jesus Christ, as the representative man, is typified in some degree in every servant of God in the Old Testament.

Job 16:17

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