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The Condition of the Wicked

“May my enemy be like the wicked,[a]
my adversary[b] like the unrighteous.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 27:7 sn Of course, he means like his enemy when he is judged, not when he is thriving in prosperity and luxury.
  2. Job 27:7 tn The form is the Hitpolel participle from קוּם (qum): “those who are rising up against me,” or “my adversary.”
  3. Job 27:7 tc The LXX 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.”

“May my enemy be like the wicked,(A)
    my adversary(B) like the unjust!

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