Job 20:26

Job 20:26

24 ^aHe will flee from the iron weapon;
A bronze bow will pierce him through.

25 It is drawn, and comes out of the body;
Yes, ^athe glittering point comes out of his¹ gall.
^bTerrors come upon him;

26 Total darkness is reserved for his treasures.
^aAn unfanned fire will consume him;
It shall go ill with him who is left in his tent.

27 The heavens will reveal his iniquity,
And the earth will rise up against him.

28 The increase of his house will depart,
And his goods will flow away in the day of His ^awrath.

29 ^aThis is the portion from God for a wicked man,
The heritage appointed to him by God.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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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).

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