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Job 20:26

Job 20:26

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

All darkness shall be hid in his secret places; literally, all darkness is reserved for his treasures' which some understand of his hidden earthly treasures, which no one shall ever find?봲ome of the retribution laid up for him by God, which will be such darkness as Job describes in , .

A fire not blown shall consume him; i.e. "a fire lighted by no human hands," probably lightning or brimstone from heaven (Job his tent, i.e. in his dwelling. His wife, his children, if he has any, and his domestics, shall be involved in the general ruin.

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