Job 20:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

Job 20:26 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 21:9
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
Psalms 120:4
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
Job 18:18-19
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. …
Matthew 3:12
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Isaiah 8:22
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 23-29)

Zophar, having described the many embarrassments and vexations which commonly attend the wicked practices of oppressors and cruel men, here comes to show their utter ruin at last. I. Their ruin will take its rise from God’s wrath and vengeance, Job 20:23. The hand of the wicked was upon him (Job 20:22), every hand of the wicked. His hand was against every one, and therefore every man’s hand will b…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. All darkness--that is, every calamity that befalls the wicked shall be hid (in store for him) in His (God’s) secret places, or treasures (Jude 13; De 32:34). not blown--not kindled by man’s hands, but by God’s (Is 30:33; the Septuagint in the Alexandrian Manuscript reads “unquenchable fire,” Mt 3:12). Tact is shown by the friends in not expressly mentioning, but alluding under color of general…