26. All darkness--that is, every calamity that befalls the wicked
shall be hid (in store for him) in His (God's) secret places, or treasures
(Jude 13;
De 32:34).
not blown--not kindled by man's hands, but by God's
(Isa 30:33;
the Septuagint in the Alexandrian Manuscript reads "unquenchable
fire,"
Mt 3:12).
Tact is shown by the friends in not expressly mentioning, but alluding
under color of general cases, to Job's calamities; here
(Job 1:16)
UMBREIT explains it, wickedness, is a
"self-igniting fire"; in it lie the principles of destruction.
ill . . . tabernacle--Every trace of the sinner must be obliterated
(Job 18:15).
JFB.
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