Job 17:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And the just man shall hold on his way: and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Job 17:9 Cross References

Genesis 20:5

Said he not himself unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and the 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: and David waxed stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

Job 22:30

He shall deliver even him that is not innocent: Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thine hands.

Job 27:5

God forbid that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away 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 spot 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, And hath not sworn deceitfully.

Psalm 26:6

I will wash mine hands in innocency; So will I compass thine altar, O LORD:

Psalm 73:13

Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocency;

Psalm 84:11

For the LORD God is a sun and a 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 appeareth before God in Zion.

Psalm 84:8

O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: Give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah

Proverbs 10:25

When the whirlwind passeth, the wicked is no more: But the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

Proverbs 10:30

The righteous shall never be removed: But the wicked shall not dwell in the land.

Proverbs 14:16

A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: But the fool beareth himself insolently, and is confident.

Proverbs 4:18

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

Mark 7:2

and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.

James 4:8

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

1 Peter 1:5

who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a 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 have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest how that they all are not of us.