Job 20:26

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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.”

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BSBPD

“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)
KJVPD

“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
ASVPD

“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
YLTPD

“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 Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 20:26 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. Job 18:5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
  3. Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
  4. 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.
  5. Psalms 109:9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
  6. Psalms 120:4Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.”
  11. Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
  12. 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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