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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 20:26 - 20:26
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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 (Jud 1:13; Deu 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,” Mat 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).