Verse 26
26. His secret places All darkness shall be hid in his treasures. Darkness is used for dark fate, calamity. He bides ( tsaphan) his treasures; God hides ( taman) with them his darkness. The fate of each sinner embodies the “divine irony in the Nemesis of history.” Compare Proverbs 1:24-31; Psalms 2:2-4. “Each time the wicked lays his unjust goods by, God lays something by till at last the time of exchange comes, treasure for treasure.” Hengstenberg.
A fire not blown The Septuagint has, “fire that burns not out,” πυρ ακαυστον . A fire that God has kindled, and not man, therefore said to be, not blown.
Deuteronomy 32:22. “Wickedness is a self-igniting fire,” it carries within itself the elements of destruction. The punishment of sin is in part the letting loose of its own destructive nature.
It shall go ill It shall destroy that which survives in his tent. Others read as in the text, (A.V.)
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