Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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 (Judges 1:13; Deuteronomy 32:34).
not blown—not kindled by man's hands, but by God's (Isaiah 30:33; the Septuagint in the Alexandrian Manuscript reads "unquenchable fire," Matthew 3:12). Tact is shown by the friends in not expressly mentioning, but alluding under color of general cases, to Job's calamities; here (Job 1:16) UMBREIT explains it, wickedness, is a "self-igniting fire"; in it lie the principles of destruction.
ill . . . tabernacle—Every trace of the sinner must be obliterated (Job 18:15).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Job 20:26:
Job 21:9
Job 22:20
Job 34:20
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