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Job 20:26
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Their treasures will be thrown into deepest darkness. A wildfire will devour their goods, consuming all they have left.
All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown by man shall devour him; it shall consume that which is left in his tent.
All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown [by man] shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
total darkness waits for their treasure. A fire not fanned by people will destroy them and burn up what is left of their tents.
Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
All 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.
All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
Complete darkness (misfortune) is held in reserve for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him; It will consume the survivor in his tent.
Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not fanned will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.
Alle derknessis ben hid in hise priuytees; fier, which is not teendid, schal deuoure hym; he schal be turmentid left in his tabernacle.
Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
and what they treasure most will be lost in the dark. God will send flames to destroy them in their tents with all their property.
All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown by man shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.
"Total darkness is laid up for his treasures, a fire fanned by no one will consume him, and calamity awaits what is left in his tent.
All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.
All his treasures will be lost in darkness. He will be destroyed by a fire, a fire that no human started. It will destroy everything left in his house.
All darkness is laid up for his treasures;
All darknesse shalbe hid in his secret places: a fire not blowen shall consume him; it shall goe ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
Complete darkness is stored up for his riches. A fire not kept going by man will burn him up. It will destroy all that is left in his tent.
Utter darkness is laid up for their treasures; a fire fanned by no one will devour them; what is left in their tent will be consumed.
All darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blowen, shall deuoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroyed.
All darkness is kept in store for his posterity; a blazing fire shall consume him; and the one who is left in his tent shall be destroyed.
Everything they have saved is destroyed; a fire not lit by human hands burns them and all their family.
Every misfortune, is laid up for his treasures, - There shall consume, a fire, not blown up, - it shall destroy what remaineth in his tent:
All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle.
Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not blown upon will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.
All darknesse shalbe hid in their secrete places, an vnkindled fire shal consume him: and loke what remaineth in his house, it shalbe destroyed.
And let all darkness wait for him: a fire that burns not out shall consume him; and let a stranger plague his house.
Total darkness is reserved for his treasures.A fire unfanned by human hands will consume him;it will feed on what is left in his tent.
All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
Total darkness is hidden for his treasures; an unfanned fire will devour him; the remnant will be consumed in his tent.
All darkness is hidden for secret treasuring; fire not blown shall consume him; those left in his tent shall be broken.
All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.
There shal no darcknes be able to hyde him. An vnkyndled fyre shal consume him, and loke what remayneth in his house, it shall be destroyed.
Complete darkness is held in reserve for his treasures, And unfanned fire will devour him; It will consume the survivor in his tent.
Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. An unfanned fire will consume him; It shall go ill with him who is left in his tent.
Complete darkness is held in reserve for his treasures, And unfanned fire will devour him; It will consume the survivor in his tent.
Complete darkness is held in reserve for his treasures;A fire unfanned will devour him;It will consume the survivor in his tent.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
darkness: Job 18:5, Job 18:6, Isaiah 8:22, Matthew 8:12, Jude 1:13
a fire: Psalms 21:9, Psalms 120:4, Isaiah 30:33, Matthew 3:12
it shall go: Job 18:19, Psalms 109:9-15, Isaiah 14:20-22
Reciprocal: Job 15:30 - the flame Job 22:20 - the fire Proverbs 14:11 - house Zechariah 5:4 - and it shall remain
Gill's Notes on the Bible
All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places,.... In such places of secrecy, where he may promise himself safety, he shall find more calamities of all sorts; or every kind of judgments shall find him out, and come upon him, sometimes signified by darkness, see Isaiah 8:22; or utter darkness, the blackness of darkness; everlasting wrath, ruin, and destruction, are laid up and reserved in God's secret places for him, and lie hid among his treasures of vengeance, which he in due time will bring forth from thence, and punish the guilty sinner with, Judges 1:13; or all this shall be because of secret sins, as Ben Gersom interprets it; and so Mr. Broughton renders the words, "for his store"; that is, for the store of his sins, as he explains it, which, however privately and secretly committed, shall be brought into judgment; and there the hidden things of darkness will be brought to light, and sentence pass upon men for them:
a fire not blown shall consume him; not blown by man, but by God himself; which some understand of thunder and lightning, such as fell on Job's sheep and servants, and consumed them, and which may be glanced at; and others of some fiery distemper, a burning fever, hot ulcers, carbuncles, c. such as were at this time on Job's body but the Targum, better, of the fire of hell; and so many of the Jewish commentators g, as well as Christian; the Septuagint version renders it, "unquenchable fire"; and so Mr. Broughton; and such the fire of hell is said to be, Matthew 3:12, c. and which is a fire kindled by the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, Isaiah 30:33
it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle; not only it shall go ill with the wicked man himself, but with those he leaves behind him, that dwell in the house he formerly lived in, with his posterity; God sometimes punishing the iniquities of the fathers upon the children.
g Jarchi, Sephorno, and others.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
All darkness shall be hid in his secret places - The word “darkness” here, as is common, means evidently calamity. The phrase “is hid,” means is treasured up for him. The phrase “in his secret places,” may mean “for his treasures,” or instead of the great treasures which he had laid up for himself. The Apostle Paul has a similar expression, in which, perhaps, he makes an allusion to this place. Romans 2:5, “but, after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath.” Treasures formerly were laid up in secret places, or places of darkness, that were regarded as inaccessible; see the notes at Isaiah 45:3.
A fire not blown - A fire unkindled. Probably the meaning is, a fire that man has not kindled, or that is of heavenly origin. The language is such as would convey the idea of being consumed by lightning, and probably Zophar intended to refer to such calamities as had come upon the family of Job, Job 1:16. There is much “tact” in this speech of Zophar, and in the discourses of his friends on this point. They never, I believe, refer expressly to the calamities that had come upon Job and his family. They never in so many words say, that those calamities were proof of the wrath of heaven. But they go on to mention a great many similar “cases” in the abstract; to prove that the wicked would be destroyed in that manner; that when such calamities came upon people, it was proof that they were wicked, and they leave Job himself to make the application. The allusion, as in this case, was too broad to be misunderstood, and Job was not slow in regarding it as intended for himself. Prof Lee (“in loc.”) supposes that there may be an allusion here to the “fire that shall not be quenched,” or to the future punishment of the wicked. But this seems to me to be foreign to the design of the argument, and not to be suggested or demanded by the use of the word. The argument is not conducted on the supposition that people will be punished in the future world. That would at once have given a new phase to the whole controversy, and would have settled it at once. The question was about the dealings of God “in this life,” and whether men are punished according to their deeds here. Had there been a knowledge of the future world of rewards and punishments, the whole difficulty would have vanished at once, and the controversy would have been ended.
It shall go ill with him in his tabernacle - Hebrew שׂריד ירע yâra‛ śârı̂yd - “It shall be ill with whatever survives or remains in his tent.” That is, all that remains in his dwelling shall be destroyed. Prof Lee renders it, “In his tent shall his survivor be broken” - supposing that the word ירע yâra‛ is from רעע râ‛a‛ - “to break.” But it is more probably from רוּע rûa‛ - “to be evil; to suffer evil; to come off ill:” and the sense is, that evil, or calamity, would come upon all that should remain in his dwelling.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 20:26. A fire not blown shall consume him — As Zophar is here showing that the wicked cannot escape from the Divine judgments; so he points out the different instruments which God employs for their destruction. The wrath of God - any secret or supernatural curse. The iron weapon - the spear or such like. The bow, and its swift-flying arrow. Darkness - deep horror and perplexity. A fire not blown - a supernatural fire; lightning: such as fell on Korah, and his company, to whose destruction there is probably here an allusion: hence the words, It shall go ill with him who is left in his tabernacle. "And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. Get ye up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Depart from the tents of these wicked men. There came out a fire from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense;" Numbers 16:20, &c.
