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Job 27:7

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The Condition of the Wicked

27:7“May my enemy be like the wicked,13

my adversary14 like the unrighteous.15

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Footnotes

  1. 13 Of course, he means like his enemy when he is judged, not when he is thriving in prosperity and luxury.
  2. 14 The form is the Hitpolel participle from קוּם (qum): “those who are rising up against me,” or “my adversary.”
  3. 15 The made a free paraphrase: “No, but let my enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, and they that rise up against me as the destruction of transgressors.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“Let my enemy be as the wicked,

and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“May my enemy be like the wicked,

my adversary like the unjust!

CSBChristian Standard Bible

May my enemy be like the wicked

and my opponent like the unjust.

NLTNew Living Translation

“May my enemy be punished like the wicked,

my adversary like those who do evil.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“Let my enemy be like the wicked

and my opponent like the unrighteous,

KJV 1900King James Version

Let mine enemy be as the wicked,

And he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.