Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Job having solemnly protested the satisfaction he had in his integrity, for the further clearing of himself, here expresses the dread he had of being found a hypocrite.
I. He tells us how he startled…
The dreary and desolate condition of the mind of the wicked man in affliction.