Job 20:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ Utter darkness is laid up for their treasures; a fire fanned by no one will devour them; what is left in their tent will be consumed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Every misfortune is laid up for his treasures. A fire not blown by man shall devour him; it shall consume what is left in his tent [and it shall go ill with him who remains there].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown by man shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

Common English Bible

²⁶ Complete darkness waits for their treasured possessions; fire that no one stoked consumes them; what’s left in their tent is ruined.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ All darkness has been hidden in his secrecy. A fire that has not been set will devour him; he will be thrown down and forsaken in his tabernacle.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ All darkness is hid in his secret places. A fire that is not kindled shall devour him: he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle.

Job 20:26 Cross References

Job 15:30

they will not escape from darkness; the flame will dry up their shoots, and their blossom will be swept away by the wind.

Job 5:14

They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.

Psalm 120:4

A warrior’s sharp arrows, with glowing coals of the broom tree!

Psalm 21:9

You will make them like a fiery furnace when you appear. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.

Isaiah 30:33

For his burning place has long been prepared, also for the king; its pyre is made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

Isaiah 8:22

or they will look to the earth, but they will see only distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and they will be thrust into thick darkness.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

Matthew 8:12

while the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.