Ayub 20:26

20:26 Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; ¹ 

a fire which has not been kindled ² 

will consume him

and devour what is left in his tent.

Ayub 39:28

39:28 It lives on a rock and spends the night there,

on a rocky crag ³  and a fortress. ⁴ 

[20:26]  ¹ tn Heb “all darkness is hidden for his laid up things.” “All darkness” refers to the misfortunes and afflictions that await. The verb “hidden” means “is destined for.”

[20:26]  ² tn Heb “not blown upon,” i.e., not kindled by man. But G. R. Driver reads “unquenched” (“Hebrew notes on the ‘Wisdom of Jesus Ben Sirach’,” JBL 53 [1934]: 289).

[39:28]  ³ tn Heb “upon the tooth of a rock.”

[39:28]  ⁴ tn The word could be taken as the predicate, but because of the conjunction it seems to be adding another description of the place of its nest.