Job 16:17

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Job 16:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.

16 My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;

17 yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

18 O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.

19 Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 11:14

if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,

Job 15:20

A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.

Job 15:34

For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

Job 21:27

Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Job 21:28

For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’

Job 22:5

Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?

Job 22:6

For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

Job 22:7

You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

Job 22:8

while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.

Job 22:9

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

Job 27:6

I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.

Job 27:7

May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.

Job 29:12

because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

Job 29:13

The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

Job 29:14

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.

Job 29:15

I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

Job 29:17

I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.

Job 31:1

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

Job 31:2

For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?

Job 31:3

Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

Job 31:4

Does He not see my ways and count my every step?

Job 31:5

If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,

Job 31:6

let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

Job 31:7

If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

Job 31:8

then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

Job 31:9

If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,

Job 31:10

then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

Job 31:11

For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.

Job 31:12

For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.

Job 31:13

If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,

Job 31:14

what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?

Job 31:15

Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

Job 31:16

If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,

Job 31:17

if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—

Job 31:18

though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

Job 31:19

if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,

Job 31:20

if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

Job 31:22

then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.

Job 31:23

For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.

Job 31:24

If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,

Job 31:25

if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,

Job 31:26

if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

Job 31:27

so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

Job 31:28

this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.

Job 31:29

If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—

Job 31:30

I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—

Job 31:31

if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—

Job 31:32

but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler—

Job 31:33

if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

Job 31:34

because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—

Job 31:35

(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.

Job 31:36

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown.

Job 31:37

I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—

Job 31:38

if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,

Job 31:39

if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,

Job 31:40

then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.

Psalms 7:3

O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,

Psalms 7:4

if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,

Psalms 7:5

then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah

Psalms 44:17

All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.

Psalms 44:18

Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.

Psalms 44:19

But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.

Psalms 44:20

If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

Psalms 44:21

would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?

Job 8:5

But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,

Job 8:6

if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.

Psalms 66:18

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Psalms 66:19

But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

1 Timothy 2:8

Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.