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Job 20:26
Job 20:26 is verse 26 of Job chapter 20, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.
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Job 20:24–28 · Berean Standard Bible
24 Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.
25 It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.
26 Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
27 The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
28 The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s wrath.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 18:5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
Job 18:6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
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.
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.
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 120:4Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!
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.”
Job 18:19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
Psalms 109:9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
Psalms 109:10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
Psalms 109:11May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
Psalms 109:12May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.
Psalms 109:13May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
Psalms 109:14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
Psalms 109:15May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
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 14:21Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
Isaiah 14:22“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.