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Selected Verse: Job 27:7 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 27:7 |
Strong Concordance |
Let mine enemy [0341] be as the wicked [07563], and he that riseth up [06965] against me as the unrighteous [05767]. |
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King James |
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| 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. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| 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 Dan 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 Jdg 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. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Let - I am so far from practicing wickedness, that I abhor the thoughts of it, and if I would wish to be revenged of my enemy, I could wish him no greater mischief than to be a wicked man. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| 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. |
31 So let all thine enemies [0341] perish [06], O LORD [03068]: but let them that love [0157] him be as the sun [08121] when he goeth forth [03318] in his might [01369]. And the land [0776] had rest [08252] forty [0705] years [08141].
19 Then [0116] Daniel [01841], whose name [08036] was Belteshazzar [01096], was astonied [08075] for one [02298] hour [08160], and his thoughts [07476] troubled [0927] him. The king [04430] spake [06032], and said [0560], Belteshazzar [01096], let not [0409] the dream [02493], or the interpretation [06591] thereof, trouble [0927] thee. Belteshazzar [01096] answered [06032] and said [0560], My lord [04756], the dream [02493] be to them that hate [08131] thee, and the interpretation [06591] thereof to thine enemies [06146].