'Against' in the Bible

"If I have rejected my male or female slave's case when their complaint [was] against me,

if I have raised my hand against an orphan because I saw my supporters at the gate,

If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together,

Look, he finds fault against me; he reckons me as his enemy;

Why do you contend against him, that he will not answer all a person's words?

for he adds transgression to his sin; he claps hands among us, and he multiplies his words against God.'"

If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And [if] your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

Look, [if the] river is turbulent, it is not frightened; it is confident even though [the] Jordan rushes against its mouth.

{And then} after Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "{My wrath has been kindled} against you and against [the] two of your friends, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has].

[The] kings of [the] earth establish themselves, and the rulers conspire together against Yahweh and his anointed:

Yahweh, how many are my enemies; many [are] rising against me.

I am not afraid of the ten thousands of people who all around have set themselves against me.

Treat them as guilty, O God; let them fall because of their plans. Because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.

Rise up, O Yahweh, in your anger, and lift yourself up against the wrath of my oppressors, and awake for me, since you have commanded judgment.

He does not slander with his tongue. He does not harm his friend, nor {bring up} a disgrace against his neighbor.

He does not lend his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against [the] innocent. He who does these [things] will never be shaken.

Show wondrously your acts of loyal love, O Savior of those who take refuge at your right hand from those who rise up against [them].

from [the] {presence} of [the] wicked who destroy me, [those] enemies against my life, [they that] surround me.

Because I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not acted wickedly against my God,

And you girded me [with] strength for the battle; [those] rising against me you made to kneel under me.

who delivered me from my enemies. Indeed, you exalted me higher than [those who] rose against me. You delivered me from the man of violence.

Though they have {plotted} evil against you, [though] they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail.

They open their mouth against me [like] a lion tearing and roaring.

When evildoers drew near against me to eat my flesh-- my adversaries and my enemies [who drew near] to me-- they themselves stumbled and fell.

Though an army encamp against me, my heart will not fear. Though war arise against me, [even] in this I [will] remain confident.

Do not give me over to the desire of my enemies, because false witnesses have arisen against me, and [each] breathing out violence.

For I hear [the] rumor of many, "Terror on every side!" When conspiring together against me, they have plotted to take my life.

Let lying lips be dumb, that speak against [the] righteous unrestrained with arrogance and contempt.

The face of Yahweh [is] against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from [the] earth.

Let those who seek my life be shamed and humiliated. Let those who plot calamity against me be repulsed and ashamed.

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together; smiters whom I did not know gathered against me. They tore and did not cease.

For they do not speak peace, but against [the] quiet [ones] of [the] land they plan deceitful words.

They also made wide their mouths against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen [it]."

Let them be shamed and abashed altogether, who rejoice at my misfortune. Let them put on shame and insult, who magnify themselves against me.

Do not let a foot of pride come against me, nor let a wicked hand make me to wander homeless.

[The] wicked plans [evil] against the righteous, and gnashes at him [with] his teeth.

For I said, "[Help,] lest they rejoice over me, [lest] they boast against me when my foot slips."

As for me, I said, "O Yahweh, be gracious [to] me. Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

All who hate me speak together against me. Against me they assume the {worst} for me:

Even {my close friend}, whom I trusted, [who] ate my bread, has lifted [his] heel against me.

Judge me, O God, and plead my case against an unfaithful nation. From a man of deceit and wickedness rescue me,

By you we push down our enemies; by your name we tread down those who rise up against us.

"Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your mother's son.

Against you, only you, I have sinned and have done this evil in your eyes, so that you are correct when you speak, you are blameless when you judge.

There {they are very fearful} [where] no fear had been, because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps [against] you. You have put [them] to shame, because God has rejected them.

For foreigners have risen against me, and ruthless [men] seek my life. They have not set God before them. Selah

because of [the] voice [of] an enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked, because they bring down evil on me, and in anger they hold a grudge [against] me.

He safely redeems my life from [the] battle against me, because [those standing] against me are among many.

He has put forth his hands against {his friends}; he has defiled his covenant.

All day they twist my words; all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.

Deliver me from my enemies, O my God. Protect me from those who rise up against me.

For look, they lie in wait for my life. The mighty attack against me, not [because of] my transgression or my sin, O Yahweh.

Give us help against [the] adversary, for the help of humankind [is] futile.

And they [who] would cause him to stumble, their [own] tongue [will be] against them. All who gaze on them will shake.

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue roams the earth.

If I had said, "I will speak thus," behold, I would have acted treacherously against your children's generation.

Why, O God, have you rejected [us] forever? [Why] does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

Do not forget the sound of your adversaries, the roar of those rising up against you ascending continually.

But they sinned still further against him by rebelling [against the] Most High in the desert.

And they spoke against God. They said, "Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

Therefore Yahweh heard and he was very angry, and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and [his] anger also rose up against Israel,

the anger of God rose against them, and he killed some of the stoutest of them, even the young men of Israel he caused to bow down [in death].

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and vexed him in [the] wasteland!

He sent against them his fierce anger, rage and indignation and trouble, a band of {destroying} angels.

But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep his statutes.

Do not remember against us former iniquities; let your mercies meet us quickly because we are brought very low.

O Yahweh God [of] hosts, {how long will you be angry} against the prayer of your people?

He made it a statute in Joseph when he went out against the land of Egypt, [where] I heard a language I did not know.

I would subdue their enemies quickly, and turn my hand against their adversaries.

They devise cunning schemes against your people, and consult together against your protected ones.

For they have consulted together {with a unified purpose}. They have made a covenant against you:

Will you be angry against us forever? Will you prolong your anger generation after generation?

O God, arrogant men have risen up against me, even a gang of ruthless men seek my life, but they do not set you before them.

But I will not break off my loyal love from him, and I will not be false against my faithfulness.

In [their] hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.

And [so] my eye looks on my enemies. My ears hear those evildoers who rise up against me.

Who rose up for me against [the] wicked? Who stood up for me against [the] workers of iniquity?

They band together against [the] life of [the] righteous, and declare [the] blameless guilty of blood.

All the day my enemies reproach me; those who mock me swear [oaths] against me.

He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal deceitfully against his servants.

He sent darkness and made [it] dark, and they did not rebel against his words.

So {he made an oath} against them, to make them drop in the wilderness,

because they rebelled against his Spirit, and he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.

So Yahweh's anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance.

because they rebelled against the words of God and spurned the counsel of the Most High,

Give us help against [the] enemy, for the help of humankind [is] futile.

for {wicked and deceitful mouths} have opened against me. They speak to me with a lying tongue.

So they inflicted evil against me in return for good and hatred in return for my love.

Let this [be] the punishment for my accusers from Yahweh, even those who speak evil against my life.

In my heart I have hidden your word, so that I may not sin against you.

Even [though] princes sit [and] speak against me, your servant meditates on your statutes.

How many [are] the days of your servant? When will you execute justice against those who persecute me?

"If [it had] not [been] Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us,

then they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger was kindled against us.

"Too often they have attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants.

Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom the day of Jerusalem, the ones who said, "Lay [it] bare! Lay [it] bare to its foundation!"

Happy [shall be he] who seizes and smashes your children against the rock.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve me alive. You stretch out your hand against the anger of my enemies, and you save me [with] your right hand.