Job 20:26

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

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  • Ps 21:9 : 9 You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.
  • Ps 109:9-9 : 9 May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow! 10 May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home! 11 May the creditor seize all he owns! May strangers loot his property! 12 May no one show him kindness! May no one have compassion on his fatherless children! 13 May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives! 14 May his ancestors’ sins be remembered by the LORD! May his mother’s sin not be forgotten! 15 May the LORD be constantly aware of them, and cut off the memory of his children from the earth!
  • Ps 120:4 : 4 Here’s how! With the sharp arrows of warriors, with arrowheads forged over the hot coals.
  • Isa 8:22 : 22 When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.
  • Isa 14:20-22 : 20 You will not be buried with them, because you destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again. 21 Prepare to execute his sons for the sins their ancestors have committed. They must not rise up and take possession of the earth, or fill the surface of the world with cities.” 22 “I will rise up against them,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“I will blot out all remembrance of Babylon and destroy all her people, including the offspring she produces,” says the LORD.
  • Isa 30:33 : 33 For the burial place is already prepared; it has been made deep and wide for the king. The firewood is piled high on it. The LORD’s breath, like a stream flowing with brimstone, will ignite it.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire!”
  • Matt 8:12 : 12 but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.
  • Job 18:5-6 : 5 “Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine. 6 The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.
  • Job 18:18-19 : 18 He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world. 19 He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

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  • Job 18:5-7
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    5“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.

    6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

    7His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.

  • Job 20:27-28
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    27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

    28A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.

  • Job 15:28-30
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    28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

    29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

    30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

  • Job 18:12-16
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    12Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

    13It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.

    14He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.

    15Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.

    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

  • Job 18:18-20
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    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

    19He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

    20People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

  • Job 20:20-25
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    20For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

    21“Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.

    22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.

    23“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

    24If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.

    25When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.

  • Ps 18:11
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    11He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

  • Job 22:20
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    20‘Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire consumes their wealth.’

  • Job 3:5
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    5Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

  • Job 27:20
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    20Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.

  • Job 27:22
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    22It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

  • Job 34:22
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    22There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

  • Nah 1:8
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    8But with an overwhelming flood he will make a complete end of Nineveh; he will drive his enemies into darkness.

  • Prov 24:20
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    20for the evil person has no future, and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke.

  • 2 Sam 22:9
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    9Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.

  • Job 41:21
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    21Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth.

  • 2 Sam 22:12-13
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    12He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

    13From the brightness in front of him came coals of fire.

  • Job 20:8
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    8Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

  • Job 31:12
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    12For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, and it would uproot all my harvest.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?

  • Ps 97:3
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    3Fire goes before him; on every side it burns up his enemies.

  • Eccl 6:4
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    4Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,

  • Job 22:11
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    11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

  • Job 21:20
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    20Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.

  • Job 15:24
    72%

    24Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,

  • Job 26:6
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    6The underworld is naked before God; the place of destruction lies uncovered.

  • Job 20:11
    72%

    11His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

  • Job 37:20
    72%

    20Should he be informed that I want to speak? If a man speaks, surely he will be swallowed up!

  • Job 12:22
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    22He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.

  • Isa 50:11
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    11Look, all of you who start a fire and who equip yourselves with flaming arrows, walk in the light of the fire you started and among the flaming arrows you ignited! This is what you will receive from me: you will lie down in a place of pain.

  • Job 15:22
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    22He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;

  • Ps 11:6
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    6May he rain down burning coals and brimstone on the wicked! A whirlwind is what they deserve!