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
In The King James Version
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.
Cross References
Job 18:5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
Psalms 21:9You 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.
Psalms 120:4Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!
Isaiah 14:20You 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.
Matthew 3:12His 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.”
Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
Matthew Henry on Job 20:24-29
23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. 25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. 26 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. 27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity;… Read the whole commentary →