Job 17:9 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁹ The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ The righteous also shall hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Yet shall the righteous (those upright and in right standing with God) hold to their ways, and he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger. [Ps. 24:4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.

Common English Bible

⁹ The innocent clings to his way; the one whose hands are clean grows stronger.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And the just will cling to his way, and clean hands will increase strength.

Job 17:9 Cross References

Genesis 20:5

Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.

2 Samuel 3:1

Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

Job 22:30

He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

Job 27:5

God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

Job 27:6

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

Job 31:7

If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

Job 33:9

I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.

Psalm 11:3

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Psalm 24:4

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Psalm 26:6

I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord:

Psalm 73:13

Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

Psalm 84:11

For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Psalm 84:7

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

Psalm 84:8

O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

Proverbs 10:25

As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

Proverbs 10:30

The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

Proverbs 14:16

A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Mark 7:2

And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen hands, they found fault.

James 4:8

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.

1 Peter 1:5

who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.