Job 20:26
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.”
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“Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown by man shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 20:26 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 15:30He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
- Job 18:5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
- Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
- Psalms 21:9You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.
- Psalms 109:9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
- Psalms 120:4Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!
- Isaiah 8:22Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.
- Isaiah 14:20You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
- Isaiah 30:33For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
- Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
- Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
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