Job 20:26

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Darkness

A fire

It shall go

Job 18:19

Psalm 109:9

Isaiah 14:20

Bible References

Darkness

“Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out,
And the flame of his fire gives no light.

Then they will look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness.

but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

A fire

You will make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger;
The Lord will swallow them up in His wrath,
And fire will devour them.

Sharp arrows of the warrior,

With the burning coals of the broom tree.

For

Topheth has long been ready,

Indeed, it has been prepared for the king.
He has made it deep and large,

A pyre of fire with plenty of wood;

The breath of the Lord, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.

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

It shall go

“He has no offspring or posterity among his people,
Nor any survivor where he sojourned.

Let his children be fatherless
And his wife a widow.

“You will not be united with them in burial,
Because you have ruined your country,
You have slain your people.
May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever.