Job 20:26
26 Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; ▼▼ Heb “all darkness is hidden for his laid up things.” “All darkness” refers to the misfortunes and afflictions that await. The verb “hidden” means “is destined for.”
a fire which has not been kindled ▼
▼ Heb “not blown upon,” i.e., not kindled by man. But G. R. Driver reads “unquenched” (“Hebrew notes on the ‘Wisdom of Jesus Ben Sirach’,” JBL 53 [1934]: 289).
will consume him
and devour what is left in his tent.
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