27:6 I will maintain my righteousness
and never let it go;
my conscience 1 will not reproach me
for as long as I live. 2
27:7 “May my enemy be like the wicked, 3
my adversary 4 like the unrighteous. 5
1 tn Heb “my heart.”
2 tn The prepositional phrase “from my days” probably means “from the days of my birth,” or “all my life.”
3 sn Of course, he means like his enemy when he is judged, not when he is thriving in prosperity and luxury.
4 tn The form is the Hitpolel participle from קוּם (qum): “those who are rising up against me,” or “my adversary.”
5 tc The LXX made a free paraphrase: “No, but let my enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, and they that rise up against me as the destruction of transgressors.”