26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures.
An unfanned fire shall devour him.
It shall consume that which is left in his tent. 27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity.
The earth shall rise up against him. 28 The increase of his house shall depart.
They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 20:26-28
Commentary on Job 20:23-29
(Read Job 20:23-29)
Zophar, having described the vexations which attend wicked practices, shows their ruin from God's wrath. There is no fence against this, but in Christ, who is the only Covert from the storm and tempest, Isaiah 32:2. Zophar concludes, "This is the portion of a wicked man from God;" it is allotted him. Never was any doctrine better explained, or worse applied, than this by Zophar, who intended to prove Job a hypocrite. Let us receive the good explanation, and make a better application, for warning to ourselves, to stand in awe and sin not. One view of Jesus, directed by the Holy Spirit, and by him suitably impressed upon our souls, will quell a thousand carnal reasonings about the suffering of the faithful.