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Notd for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayere is pure.

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Psa. 44:17‑21• ¹⁷All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
¹⁸Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
¹⁹Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
²¹Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. (Psa. 44:17‑21)

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Psa. 66:18‑19• ¹⁸If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
¹⁹But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer. (Psa. 66:18‑19)

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Job 11:14• ¹⁴If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. (Job 11:14)

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Job 15:20,34• ²⁰The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
³⁴For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. (Job 15:20,34)

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Job 21:27‑28• ²⁷Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
²⁸For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? (Job 21:27‑28)

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Job 22:5‑9• ⁵Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
⁶For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
⁷Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
⁸But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it.
⁹Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. (Job 22:5‑9)

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Job 27:6‑7• ⁶My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
⁷Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. (Job 27:6‑7)

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Job 29:12‑17• ¹²Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
¹³The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
¹⁴I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
¹⁵I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
¹⁶I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
¹⁷And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. (Job 29:12‑17)

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Job 31:1‑40• ¹I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
²For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
³Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
⁴Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
⁵If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
⁶Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
⁷If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
⁸Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
⁹If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
¹⁰Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
¹¹For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
¹²For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
¹³If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
¹⁴What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
¹⁵Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
¹⁶If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
¹⁷Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
¹⁸(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
¹⁹If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
²⁰If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
²¹If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
²²Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
²³For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
²⁴If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
²⁵If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
²⁶If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
²⁷And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
²⁸This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
²⁹If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
³⁰Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
³¹If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
³²The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
³³If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
³⁴Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
³⁵Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
³⁶Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
³⁷I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
³⁸If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
³⁹If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
⁴⁰Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. (Job 31:1‑40)

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Psa. 7:3‑5• ³O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
⁴If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
⁵Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honor in the dust. Selah. (Psa. 7:3‑5)

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Psa. 44:17‑21• ¹⁷All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
¹⁸Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
¹⁹Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
²¹Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. (Psa. 44:17‑21)

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Job 8:5‑6• ⁵If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
⁶If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. (Job 8:5‑6)

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Psa. 66:18‑19• ¹⁸If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
¹⁹But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer. (Psa. 66:18‑19)

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Prov. 15:8• ⁸The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. (Prov. 15:8)

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1 Tim. 2:8• ⁸I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. (1 Tim. 2:8)

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Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.