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and with your contender Heb. יְרִיבֵךְ. And with your contender I will contend.

The captive of the mighty. The captive which the mighty man has taken, will be taken away from him.

עריץ The terrible. It is an adjective with transitive meaning: causing terror; comp. אימים (Gen. 14:5).

Moreover, I will contend with him that contendeth with thee. I shall make war against those that attack thee. יריבך that contendeth with thee. Some derive it from ירב; others by metathesis from ריב;²⁸There is in fact no difference between the two views, whether we assume a new root ירב which has the same meaning as ריב, or say that it is the same root, the י having changed its place; in both cases יריב is a noun, meaning he that contendeth. according to the Jerusalemite²⁹See I. E. on 28:12, and note 13. the relative אשר who must be supplied before יריבך, which he explains to be the third person singular masculine future of ריב; he overlooked, however, the parallel instance of יריבי that strive with me (Ps. 35:1).³⁰This form cannot be explained to be the future, since in that case it would be יְרִיבֵנִי he that contends with me, or יְרִיבוּנִי they that contend with me. In short it is an irregular form.