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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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Albert Barnes
On Job 27:7
18th Century
Theologian
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, …
Charles Ellicott
On Job 27:7
19th Century
Bishop
Let mine enemy be as the wicked. —While, however, he admits that the wicked is often a prosperous man, he declares that h…
Charles Spurgeon
On Job 27:7–8
19th Century
Preacher
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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John Gill
On Job 27:7
17th Century
Pastor
Let mine enemy be as the wicked
Job in this, and some following verses, shows, that he was not, and could not, and w…
Matthew Henry
On Job 27:7–10
17th Century
Minister
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 …