Job 27:7 "May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unjust!

◄ Job 27:7 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
"May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unjust!

English Standard Version
“Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

New American Standard Bible
"May my enemy be as the wicked And my opponent as the unjust.

King James Bible
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.

International Standard Version
"May my enemy be like the wicked; my adversary like the unjust.

American Standard Version
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.

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

Darby Bible Translation
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

Young's Literal Translation
As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

27:7-10 Job looked upon the condition of a hypocrite and a wicked man, to be most miserable. If they gained through life by their profession, and kept up their presumptuous hope till death, what would that avail when God required their souls? The more comfort we find in our religion, the more closely we shall cleave to it. Those who have no delight in God, are easily drawn away by the pleasures, and easily overcome by the crosses of this life.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

7. Let … be—Let mine enemy be accounted as wicked, that is, He who opposes my asseveration of innocence must be regarded as actuated by criminal hostility. Not a curse on his enemies.