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

Bible Comments

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 actually upon him, yet it is reserved and treasured up for him, and is kept as in a sure place, and shall infallibly overtake him. In his secret places; either,

1. In his hid treasures, as this very word signifies, Psalms 17:14. He treasures up wealth, and with God's wrath and curse. Or,

2. In those places where he confidently hopes to hide and secure himself from all evils and enemies; yet even there God shall find him out. Or, for, or instead of, (or with, for both ways the prefix lamed is oft used,) his hid treasures. A fire not blown, to wit, by man, but kindled by God himself, as that was, Job 1:16. He thinks by his might and violence to secure himself from men, but God by his own immediate hand, or in some unknown and unexpected manner, will find him out. Some understand it of hell-fire; of which see Isaiah 30:33. With him that is left in his tabernacle, i.e. with his posterity or family, who shall inherit his curse as well as his estate.

Job 20:26

26 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.