Job 27:7
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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,

Lexicon
May my enemy
אֹ֣יְבִ֑י (’ō·yə·ḇî)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 341: Hating, an adversary

be
יְהִ֣י (yə·hî)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

like the wicked
כְ֭רָשָׁע (ḵə·rā·šā‘)
Preposition-k | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7563: Wrong, an, bad person

and my opponent
וּמִתְקוֹמְמִ֥י (ū·miṯ·qō·wm·mî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Participle - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

like the unjust.
כְעַוָּֽל׃ (ḵə·‘aw·wāl)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5767: Unjust, unrighteous one


Additional Translations
May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he that rises up against me as the unrighteous.

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

Nay rather, but let mine enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, and they that rise up against me, as the destruction of transgressors.

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

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.

Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

"Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.
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