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# to devour my flesh
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Destroying someone completely is spoken of as if it were devouring a person's flesh. He did not mean that they wanted to eat his body. Alternate translation: "to destroy me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# my adversaries and my enemies
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These words mean the same thing. These are the evildoers who came near to him. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-doublet]])
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# stumbled and fell
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This represents the writer's enemies failing to fulfill their plans to harm the writer. Alternate translation: "did not succeed" or "failed" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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