Job 20:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

• Job 20:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  All darkness shall be hid in his secret places - The word “darkness” here, as is common, means evidently calamity. The phrase “is hid,” means is treasured up for him. The phrase “in his secret pl...

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• Job 20:26 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (o) All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places: a fire not (p) blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. (o) All fear and sorrow will light on him when...

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• Job 20:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 20. Second Speech of Zophar. Zophar helps the return to the wider problem by appearing once more with a strong doctrine as to the shortness of the prosperity of the wicked. His theme is, Sin br...

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• Job 20:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  not blown. Not blown up, or produced by man. tabernacle . tent.

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• Job 20:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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. Wherefore accountest thou me thine enemy? Wouldst thou...

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• Job 20:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  All darkness shall be hid in his secret place— All manner of calamity is laid up in store for him: an unquenchable fire shall consume him: it shall devour all that remaineth in his stead. Heath...

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• Job 20:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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. All darkness - i:e., every calamity that befalls t...

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• Job 20:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Zophar's Second Speech Zophar ignores Job's conviction that God will one day establish his innocence, and proceeds to describe the short triumph of the wicked and his certain downfall and punishme...

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• Job 20:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  All darkness shall be hid in his secret places. — Rather, All darkness, every kind of disaster, is laid up for his secret treasures. A fire not blown. — By human hands, &c.

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• Job 20:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XVII. IGNORANT CRITICISM OF LIFE Job 20:1-29 ZOPHAR SPEAKS THE great saying that quickens our faith and carries thought into a higher world conveyed no Divine meaning to the man from Naamah....

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• Job 20:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Triumphing of the Wicked” Job 20:1-29 Zophar is the man who least of all understood Job. The rebuke which Job had just administered, Job 19:28-29 , has vexed him, so that he speaks with i...

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• Job 20:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  With evident haste, Zophar replied. His speech is introduced with an apology for his haste and a confession of his anger. He had heard the reproof, but he was not convinced; and the spirit of his und...

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• Job 20:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (4) Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, (5) That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? (6) Though his excellency mount up to...

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• Job 20:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places ,.... In such places of secrecy, where he may promise himself safety, he shall find more calamities of all sorts; or every kind of judgments shall fi...

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• Job 20:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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. Ver. 26. All darkness shall be hid in his secret plac...

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• Job 20:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  All darkness All sorts of miseries, of soul, and body, and estate; shall be hid Or laid up by God for him. They are reserved and treasured up for him, and kept as in a sure place, and shall infal...

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• Job 20:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE WICKED MAN'S BRIEF TRIUMPH (vv.1-5) Zophar does not even consider the possibility that Job is not wicked, but again strongly condemns the wicked, making it evident that he is really speaking...

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• Job 20:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.   24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the b...

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• Job 20:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  All darkness, i.e. all sorts of miseries, both of soul, and body, and estate. Shall be hid, or, is hid , or laid up , to wit, by God for him. This phrase may note, that though it be not actuall...

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• Job 20:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  ZOPHAR’S SECOND SPEECH Produces nothing new; much more outspoken than before. Enlarges on the miseries overtaking the wicked, insinuating that Job was such. His argument,—like in condition, like...

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• Job 20:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 20:2 . I make haste to answer, for thou reproachest both God and us. Zophar had felt the point of Job's sword, in the preseding discourse; but the present chapter may well be considered as a m...

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• Job 20:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 20:1-18 Zophar's second speech is even more harsh than his first ( Job 11:1-18 .). He adds coarseness and rudeness to his former vehement hostility ( Job 20:7 , Job 20:15 )....

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• Job 20:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Zophar Pictures the End of the Ungodly

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• Job 20:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 14:20-22 ; Isaiah 30:33 ; Isaiah 8:22 ; Job 18:19 ; Job 18:5 ; Job 18:6 ; Jude 1:13 ; Matthew 3:12 ; Matthew 8:12 ; Psalms 109:9-15 ; Psalms 120:4 ; Psalms 21:9

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• Job 20:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Darkness — All sorts of miseries. Hid — Or, laid up; by God for him. It is reserved and treasured up for him, and shall infallibly overtake him. Secret — In those places where he confidently hopes...

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