Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 27:2

"When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [Even] mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell." — Psalms 27:2 (ASV)

When ... —Literally, In the coming against me (of) the wicked to devour my flesh — my enemies and my foes to me — themselves stumbled and fell.Job 19:22 would allow us to understand "those who eat up flesh" as a figure for slanderers and detractors. However, the context indicates the situation so clearly as that of a warrior that we instead interpret it as a general metaphor for savage and violent attacks. To me, is an emphatic repetition—my enemies, mine.