Job 20:26 “Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will con…”

Job 20:26

Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“darkness”

Isaiah 8:22 Matthew 8:12 Jude 1:13 Job 18:5 Job 18:6

Isaiah 8:22 · BSB

Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

Matthew 8:12 · BSB

But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Jude 1:13 · BSB

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

Job 18:5 · BSB

Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

Job 18:6 · BSB

The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

“a fire”

Psalm 21:9 Psalm 120:4 Isaiah 30:33 Matthew 3:12

Psalm 21:9 · BSB

You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.

Psalm 120:4 · BSB

Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!

Isaiah 30:33 · BSB

For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

Matthew 3:12 · BSB

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

“it shall go”

Psalm 109:9–15 Isaiah 14:20–22 Job 18:19

Psalm 109:9–15 · BSB

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

Isaiah 14:20–22 · BSB

You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.

Job 18:19 · BSB

He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

Also

Job 18:18–19

Job 18:18–19 · BSB

He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

25It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.

27The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.

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