The Pulpit Commentary on Job 27:7

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Let mine enemy be as the wicked. The nexus of this passage with what goes before is uncertain. Some suppose Job's full thought to have been, "Ye try to persuade me to act wickedly by making a false representation of my feelings and convictions; but I absolutely refuse to do so.

Let that rather be the act of my enemy." Others regard him as simply so vexed by his pretended friends, who are his real enemies, that he is driven to utter an imprecation against them. And he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

This is another instance of a mere pleonastic hemistich—a repetition of the preceding clause in different words.

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