Job 27:7
Good News Translation
May all who oppose me and fight against me be punished like the wicked and the unrighteous.

New Revised Standard Version
“May my enemy be like the wicked, and may my opponent be like the unrighteous.

Contemporary English Version
I pray that my enemies will suffer no less than the wicked.

New American Bible
Let my enemy be as the wicked and my adversary as the unjust!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.

1 Samuel 25:26 Now therefore, my lord, the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, who hath withholden thee from coming to blood, and hath saved thy hand to thee: and now let thy enemies be as Nabal, and all they that seek evil to my lord.

2 Samuel 18:32 And the king said to Chusai: Is the young man Absalom safe? And Chusai answering him, said: Let the enemies of my lord, the king, and all that rise against him unto evil, be as the young man is.

Daniel 4:19 It is thou, O king, who art grown great, and become mighty: for thy greatness hath grown, and hath reached to heaven, and thy power unto the ends of the earth.

Context
The Wicked Man's Portion
7Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.8For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?…
Cross References
Job 27:6
My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?

Job 31:35
Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,

Job 27:6
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