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"Let my enemy be as the wicked, Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
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A Rejection of Wickedness
Commentators agree that Job is forcefully rejecting his friends' accusations that he sympathizes with evil. By stating that the worst fate he could imagine for an enemy is to be like the wicked, he clarifies his own moral stance. As Albert Barnes notes, this isn't about justifying wickedness but showing his utter disdain for it.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Let mine enemy be as the wicked - This is probably said so that he might show that it was not his intention to justify the wicked, …
19th Century
Anglican
Let mine enemy be as the wicked. —While, however, he admits that the wicked is often a prosperous man, he declares that h…
Baptist
That is a very solemn, searching question. If a man tries to play fast and loose with God, if he is a hypocrite, and if he should gain by his hypoc…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Let mine enemy be as the wicked Job in this, and some following verses, shows, that he was not, and could not, and w…
Job considered the condition of a hypocrite and a wicked man to be most miserable. If they gained throughout life by their profession, and kept up …
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, Job had successfully refuted the speech of Bildad, who had cited divine power against him as if Job were ignorant of its greatness. Whe…
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