Job 20:26

_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._ All darkness - i:e., every calamity that befalls the wicked shall be hid (in store for him) in His (God's secret places or treasures, Jude 1:13; Deut. 33:34). Maurer, not so well, takes it, 'in the sinner's secret treasures.' NOT BLOWN - not kindled by man's hands, but by God's (Isaiah 30:33; Isaiah 33:11; the Septuagint, in Alexandrian manuscript, read 'unquenchable fire;' Matthew 3:12). Tact is shown by the friends in not expressly mentioning, but alluding, under colour o

23-29 Zophar, having described the vexations which attend wicked practices, shows their ruin from God's wrath. There is no fence against this, but in Christ, who is the only Covert from the storm and tempest, Isaiah 32:2. Zophar concludes, "This is the portion of a wicked man from God;" it is allotted him. Never was any doctrine better explained, or worse applied, than this by Zophar, who intended to prove Job a hypocrite. Let us receive the good explanation, and make a better application, for warning to ourselves, to stand in awe and sin not. One view of Jesus, directed by the Holy Spirit, and by him suitably impressed upon our souls, will quell a thousand carnal reasonings about the suffering of the faithful....

Verse Job 20:26. _A FIRE NOT BLOWN SHALL CONSUME HIM_] As Zophar is here showing that the wicked cannot escape from the Divine judgments; so he points out the different instruments which God employs for their destruction. The _wrath of God _- any secret or supernatural curse. The _iron weapon _- the spear or such like. The _bow_, and its swift-flying _arrow_. _Darkness _- deep horror and perplexity. _A fire_ _not blown _- a supernatural fire; _lightning_: such as fell on Korah, and his company, to whose destruction there is probably here an allusion: hence the words, _It shall go ill with him who is left in_ _his tabernacle_. "And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. _Get ye up from about the tabernacle_ of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. _Depart_ from...

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 places,” may mean “for his treasures,” or instead of the great treasures which he had laid up for himself. The Apostle Paul has a similar expression, in which, perhaps, he makes an allusion to this place. Romans 2:5, “but, after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath.” Treasures formerly were laid up in secret places, or places of darkness, that were regarded as inaccessible; see the notes at Isaiah 45:3. A FIRE NOT BLOWN - A fire unkindled. Probably the meaning is, a fire that man has not kindled, or

EXPOSITION JOB 20:1 Zophar's second speech is even more harsh than his first (Job 11:1.). He adds coarseness and rudeness to his former vehement hostility (Job 20:7, Job 20:15). His whole discourse is a covert denunciation of Job as a wicked man and a hypocrite (verses 5, 12, 19, 29), deservedly punished by God for a life of crime. He ends by prophesying Job's violent death, the destruction of his house, and the rising up of heaven and earth in witness against him (verses 24-28). JOB 20:1,...

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 find him out, and come upon him, sometimes signified by darkness, see Isaiah 8:22; or utter darkness, the blackness of darkness; everlasting wrath, ruin, and destruction, are laid up and reserved in God's secret places for him, and lie hid among his treasures of vengeance, which he in due time will bring forth from thence, and punish the guilty sinner with, Judges 1:13; or all this shall be because of secret sins, as Ben Gersom interprets it; and so Mr. Broughton renders the words, "for his store"; that is, for the store of his sins, as he explains it, which, however privately and secretly committed, shall be brought into

CHAPTER 20 THE SECOND ADDRESS OF ZOPHAR _ 1. Zophar's swift reply (Job 20:1)_ 2. Another description of the life and fate of the wicked (Job 20:4) Job 20:1. Zophar, the twitterer, begins his reply to Job with impatient haste. Job's words, probably those found in chapter 19:2-3, and the last two verses, have made him angry. He boils over with indignation. He is ready now to confirm the testimony already given and wound the suffering servant of God still more. Job 20:4. He follows the same path and there is again nothing new in his argument. The description of the wicked is great; no fault can be found with what he says about those who

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 brings its own reward. JOB 20:1. Zophar replies to Job's exasperating words (Job 19:1). In Job 20:2 b _mg._ is probably to be followed. In Job 20:3 b Duhm, on the basis of LXX, reads, and with wind void of understanding thou answerest me. JOB 20:4. The portion of the wicked. How short is his joy, how utter his destruction! In...

NOT BLOWN. Not blown up, or produced by man. TABERNACLE. tent....

His insatiable greed shall be satisfied at last. God shall fill him full of his judgments....