Job 20:26
Good News Translation
Everything they have saved is destroyed; a fire not lit by human hands burns them and all their family.

New Revised Standard Version
Utter darkness is laid up for their treasures; a fire fanned by no one will devour them; what is left in their tent will be consumed.

Contemporary English Version
and what they treasure most will be lost in the dark. God will send flames to destroy them in their tents with all their property.

New American Bible
Complete darkness is in store for his treasured ones; a fire unfanned shall consume him; any survivor in his tent shall be destroyed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle.

darkness

Job 18:5,6 Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine? . . .

Isaiah 8:22 And they shall look to the earth, and behold trouble and darkness, weakness and distress, and a mist following them, and they cannot fly away from their distress.

Matthew 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion: wandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever.

a fire

Psalm 21:9 Thou shalt make them as an oven of fire, in the time of thy anger: the Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour them.

Psalm 120:4 The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste.

Isaiah 30:33 For Topheth is prepared from yesterday, prepared by the king, deep, and wide. The nourishment thereof is fire and much wood: the breath of the Lord as a torrent of brimstone kindling it.

Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

it shall go

Job 18:19 His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.

Psalm 109:9-15 May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. . . .

Isaiah 14:20-22 Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the wicked shall not be named for ever. . . .

Context
Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
25The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and glittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon him. 26All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle.27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.…
Cross References
Job 5:14
They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Job 15:30
He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own mouth.

Job 18:18
He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.

Psalm 21:9
Thou shalt make them as an oven of fire, in the time of thy anger: the Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour them.

Job 20:25
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