the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Job 27:7
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"May my enemy be punished like the wicked, my adversary like those who do evil.
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.
Let my enemy be as the wicked, And let him that rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
"Let my enemies be like evil people, my foes like those who are wrong.
"May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unrighteous.
Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
"Let my enemy be as the wicked, Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
"May my enemy be as the wicked, And he who rises up against me be as the unrighteous (unjust).
"Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
As my wickid enemy doth; myn aduersarie is as wickid.
May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.
I pray that my enemies will suffer no less than the wicked.
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.
Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.
"May my enemy meet the doom of the wicked; my foe the fate of the unrighteous.
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
May my enemies be punished like those who are evil. May those who stood against me end up like all who have done wrong.
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.
Let mine enemie be as the wicked, and he that riseth vp against me, as the vnrighteous.
"May the one who hates me be as the sinful. And may the one who is against me be as those who are not right and good.
"May my enemy be like the wicked, and may my opponent be like the unrighteous.
Mine enemie shal be as the wicked, and he that riseth against me, as the vnrighteous.
Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and he that hates me as the wicked.
May all who oppose me and fight against me be punished like the wicked and the unrighteous.
Let mine enemy be a veritably lawless one! And, he that lifteth himself up against me, one veritably perverse!
Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.
"Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him that rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
Therfore myne enemie shalbe founde as the vngodly, and he that taketh part against me, as the vnrighteous.
Nay rather, but let mine enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, and they that rise up against me, as the destruction of transgressors.
May my enemy be like the wickedand my opponent like the unjust.
"Let my enemy be as the wicked, Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
"Let my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unrighteous,
Let my enemy be like the wicked and he who rises against me as the perverse.
As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.
Therfore myne enemy shalbe founde as the vngodly, & he yt taketh parte agaynst me, as the vnrightuous.
"Let my enemy be exposed as wicked! Let my adversary be proven guilty! What hope do people without God have when life is cut short? when God puts an end to life? Do you think God will listen to their cry for help when disaster hits? What interest have they ever shown in the Almighty? Have they ever been known to pray before?
"May my enemy be as the wicked, And my opponent as the criminal.
"May my enemy be like the wicked, And he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.
"May my enemy be as the wicked And my opponent as the unjust.
"May my enemy be as the wickedAnd the one who rises against me as the unjust.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
1 Samuel 25:26, 2 Samuel 18:32, Daniel 4:19
Reciprocal: Job 10:15 - If I be wicked Job 16:17 - Not for
Cross-References
And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord , that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Let mine enemy be as the wicked,.... Job in this, and some following verses, shows, that he was not, and could not, and would not be a wicked man and an hypocrite, or however had no opinion and liking of such persons; for whatever his friends might think of him, because he had said so much of their outward prosperity in this world; yet he was far from approving of or conniving at their wickedness and hypocrisy, or choosing them for his companions, and joining with them in their actions, or imagining they were really happy persons; so far from it, that he would not be in their condition and circumstances for all the world: for if he was to wish a bad thing to the greatest enemy he had, he could not wish him any worse than to be as a wicked and unrighteous man; that is, to be a wicked and unrighteous man; which it is impossible for a good man to wish, and indeed would be a needless wish, since all that are enemies to good men, as such, must be wicked; and such were Job's enemies, as the Chaldeans and Sabeans; but that they might be as such, in their state and circumstances, or rather as they will be in the consequence of things, most wretched and miserable; for they are always under the displeasure of God, and hated by him; and whatever fulness they may have of the things of this world, they have them with a curse, and they are curses to them, and their end will be everlasting ruin and destruction; wherefore the Septuagint version is,
"as the overthrow of the ungodly, and as the perdition of transgressors;''
though some take this to be a kind of an ironic imprecation, and that by the wicked man here, and unrighteous in the next clause, he means himself, whom his friends reckoned a wicked and unrighteous man; and then the sense is, I wish you all, my friends, and even the worst enemies I have, were but as wicked Job is, as you call him; not that he wished they might be afflicted in body, family, and estate, as he was, but that they were as good men as he was, and partook of as much of the grace of God as he did, and had the same integrity and righteousness as he had, see Acts 26:29; and such a wish as this, as it serves to illustrate his own character, so it breathes charity and good will to others; and indeed it cannot be thought the words are to be taken in such a sense as that he wished the same evils might be retorted upon his enemies, whether open or secret, which they were the means of bringing upon him, which was contrary to the spirit of Job,
Job 31:29. Some consider them not as an imprecation, but as a prediction, "mine enemy shall be as the wicked" e; and may have respect to his friends, who were so ready to charge him with wickedness, and suggests that in the issue of thin; they would be found, and not he, guilty of sin folly, and to have said the things that were not right, neither of God, nor of him, which had its accomplishment, Job 42:7;
and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous; which is but another way of expressing the same thing; for an enemy, and one that rises up against a man, is the same person; only this the better explains what enemy is intended, even an open one, that rises up in an hostile manner, full of rage and fury; and so a wicked and an unrighteous man are the same, and are frequently put together as describing the same sort of persons, see Isaiah 55:7.
e יהי כרשע איבי "erit ut impius inimieus meus", Pagninus, Montanus, Boldacius; so Junius & Tremellius, Broughton, & Ramban.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Let mine enemy be as the wicked - This is probably said that he might show that it was not his intention to justify the wicked, and that in all that he had said it was no part of his purpose to express approbation of their course. His friends had charged him with this; but he now solemnly disclaims it, and says that he had no such design. To show how little he meant to justify the wicked, he says that the utmost that he could desire for an enemy would be, that he would be treated as he believed the wicked would be. A similar expression occurs in Daniel 4:19, “My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies;” that is, calamities are coming upon thee indicated by the dream, such as you would desire on your foes; so in Judges 5:31. After the mother of Sisera had anxiously looked for the return of her son from the battle, though he was then slain, the sacred writer adds, “So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord.” Thus, when a traitor is executed it is common for the executioner to hold up his head and say, “So let all the enemies of the king die.” Job means to say that he had no sympathy with wicked people, and that he believed that they would be punished as certainly and as severely as one could desire his enemy to suffer. Schnurrer supposes that by the enemy here he refers to his friends with whom he had been disputing; but this is to give an unnecessarily harsh construction to the passage.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 27:7. Let mine enemy be as the wicked — Let my accuser be proved a lying and perjured man, because he has laid to my charge things which he cannot prove, and which are utterly false.
