Job 20:26

Modern

Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

Traditional

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.

Literal

Complete darkness is hidden for his treasuring; a fire that is not fanned will consume him, the remnant in his tent will be devoured.

Latin

Omnes tenebræ absconditæ sunt in occultis ejus; devorabit eum ignis qui non succenditur: affligetur relictus in tabernaculo suo.

Hebrew

English

Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

Images like darkness and fire often symbolize God's presence, especially his judgment (Deuteronomy 4:11; 5:22–23; Hebrews 12:18; Exodus 9:23–24; 10:21–29).

Psalm 21:9
You 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.
Psalm 120:4
Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!
Isaiah 30:33
For 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.
Job 18:18–19
He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
Isaiah 8:22
Then 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 8:12
But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 3:12
His 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.”
Psalm 109:9–15
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
Job 18:5–6
Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
Isaiah 14:20–22
You 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.
Jude 1:13
They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.