(25.) Hence the force of the statement: “There was no injustice in my hands, but my prayer was pure.”102 Job xvi. 18. For the purity of his prayer arose from this circumstance, that it was not improper for him to ask forgiveness in prayer, when he really bestowed forgiveness himself.
25. Inde est quod dicit, Nihil iniquum erat in manibus meis, sed munda oratio mea (Job. XVI, 18). Hinc enim erat munda oratio, quia veniam non injuste petebat, qui veraciter dabat.