Job 20:26 | JFB | e4.org | 26. 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 ( ). not blown —not kindled by man's hands, but by God's ( ; the Septuagint in the Alexandrian Manuscript reads "unquenchable fire," ). Tact is shown by the friends in not expressly mentioning, but alluding under color of general cases, to Job's calamities; here ( ) 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 20:26

26. 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 (Jude 13; De 32:34).

not blown—not kindled by man's hands, but by God's (Isa 30:33; the Septuagint in the Alexandrian Manuscript reads "unquenchable fire," Mt 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).