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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Job 27:7

Let mine enemy be as the wicked I am so far from loving and practising wickedness, whereof you accuse me, that I abhor the thoughts of it; and if I might and should wish to be revenged of mine enemy, I could wish him no greater mischief than to be a wicked man. This does not imply that we may lawfully wish any man to be wicked, or that any man who is not wicked should be treated as wicked; but we ought all rather to choose to be in the condition of a beggar, an outlaw, a galley-slave, any thing rather than in the condition of the wicked, though in ever so much outward pomp and prosperity.

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See also Job 27:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 27:7. _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....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 expres...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 27 JOB'S CLOSING WORDS IN SELF-VINDICATION _ 1. My righteousness I hold fast (Job 27:1)_ 2. The contrast between himself and the wicked (Job 27:7) Job 27:1. Zophar, the third friend, no long...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THIRD SPEECH OF ZOPHAR. He once more reiterates, in spite of all Job has said, that the wicked shall perish. He bursts out Let mine enemy be as God's enemy. I can wish him no worse doom. In Job 27:8 t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In Job 27:2 Job protested his sincerity in affirming his innocence. With Job 27:7 commences a description of the misery of mind, and the outward destruction at the hand of God, which are the portion o...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The dreary and desolate condition of the mind of the wicked man in affliction....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD JUSTIFY YOU— See the note on chap. Job 2:9. This and the three following verses afford us a proof of Job's faith, and contain the noble plea that he makes for himself against...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. NO BELIEVERS ANONYMOUS, I.E., NO UNIVERSAL SALVATION (Job 27:7-23) TEXT 27:7-23 7 LET MINE ENEMY BE AS THE WICKED, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous. 8 For what is th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _LET MINE ENEMY BE AS THE WICKED, AND HE THAT RISETH UP AGAINST ME AS THE UNRIGHTEOUS._ Let ... be - let mine enemy be accounted as wicked; i:e., He who opposes my asseveration of innocence must be r...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S EIGHTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-6. Job protests that he is innocent. Job 27:1 are an enlargement of what Job had previously said (Job 13:16) of his determination not to admit that he was being puni...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HYPOCRITE] RV 'godless.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 27 JOB CONTINUES HIS LAST S...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    In chapter 21, Job argued that God does not seem to punish wicked people. In Job 24:1, Job thought that he was waiting in vain for God to act as judge. But in chapter 27, Job was speaking as if he was...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LET MINE ENEMY BE AS THE WICKED. — While, however, he admits that the wicked is often a prosperous man, he declares that he has no envy for him, but would have only his adversaries to be like him....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יְהִ֣י כְ֭ רָשָׁע אֹ֣יְבִ֑י וּ מִתְקֹומְמִ֥י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XXII. THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS Job 26:1; Job 27:1 Job SPEAKS BEGINNING his reply Job is full of scorn and sarcasm. "How hast thou helped one without power! How hast thou saved the strengthless...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE JUSTICE OF GOD Job 27:1 Zophar ought now to have taken up the discourse, but, as he is silent, Job proceeds. First he renews _his protestations of integrity,_ Job 27:1. He denies the charge of be...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    There would seem to have been a pause after Job's answer to Bildad. The suggestion is that he waited for Zophar, and seeing that Zophar was silent, he took the initiative, and made general reply. This...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Enemy, or opponent. Hebrew, "my enemy shall be," &c. (Haydock) --- In effect, those who maintained the contrary to what Job taught, favoured the cause of impiety, as they represented God never punishi...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (2) As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul; (3) All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; (4) My lips shall not speak...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    LET MINE ENEMY BE AS THE WICKED,.... Job in this, and some following verses, shows, that he was not, and could not, and would not be a wicked man and an hypocrite, or however had no opinion and liking...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. Ver. 7. _Let mine enemy be as the wicked_] _q.d._ I need wish my greatest enemy no greater harm than to be as the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Let mine enemy be as the wicked and he that riseth up against me, the adversary of Job, AS THE UNRIGHTEOUS, that being the just reward of Job's enemies for doubting and disputing his innocence....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB'S AGAIN PROTESTS HIS INNOCENCE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    HOLDING FAST HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS (vv.1-7) In Chapter 26 Job answered Bildad fully. Bildad's last argument was very brief, and after this Zophar had nothing at all to say. Job has already won the debat...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    In maintaining his innocence it is clear that Job is not excusing sinners, for God gives. clear description of condemnation for the wicked. Job will point out that the godless man has not hope (Job 27...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-10 Job looked upon the condition of a hypocrite and a wicked man, to be most miserable. If they gained through life by their profession, and kept up their presumptuous hope till death, what would th...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I am so far from loving and practising wickedness, whereof you accuse me, that I abhor the thoughts of it; and if I might and would wish to be revenged of mine enemy, I could wish him no greater misch...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 27:7 enemy H341 (H8802) wicked H7563 up H6965 (H8693) unrighteous H5767 1 Samuel 25:26;...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Remember that Job's friends had accused him of having committed some great sin; which would account for his great sorrows. The good man is naturally very indignant, and he uses the strongest possible...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: The consideration of the miserable condition of the hypocrite should engage us to be upright. KEY WORD: Hypocr...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 27:1. _Parable,_ equivalent to a wise, learned and conclusive speech. Job 27:2. _God hath taken away my judgment._ The old readings here are preferable. The LXX, God judgeth me thus, or so heavily...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Moreover Job continued his parable._ POINTS IN JOB’S PARABLE I. A solemn asseveration. “As God liveth.” The words imply a belief-- 1. In the reality of the Divine existence. Whilst some deny this...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 27:7 If Job is right to maintain his integrity (see vv. Job 27:2), then his adversaries should be considered AS THE WICKED and unrighteous

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JOB’S REPLY TO THE FRIENDS IN GENERAL_ Job now alone in the field. Zophar, who should have followed Bildad, and to whom Job had given opportunity to speak, has apparently nothing to say. Job, therefo...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 27:1 This chapter divides itself into three distinct portions. In the first, which extends to the end of Job 27:6, Job is engaged in maintaining, with the utmost possible solemnity (ve...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Job continued his answer and he said, As God lives, who has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul; All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 25:26; 2 Samuel 18:32; Daniel 4:19...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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....

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