or all this shall be because of secret sins, as Ben Gersom interprets it; and so Mr. Broughton renders the words, "for his store"; that is, for the store of his sins, as he explains it, which, however privately and secretly committed, shall be brought into judgment; and there the hidden things of darkness will be brought to light, and sentence pass upon men for them:a fire not blown shall consume him; not blown by man, but by God himself; which some understand of thunder and lightning, such as fell on Job's sheep and servants, and consumed them, and which may be glanced at; and others of some fiery distemper, a burning fever, hot ulcers, carbuncles, &c.
such as were at this time on Job's body; but the Targum, better, of the fire of hell; and so many of the Jewish commentators , as well as Christian; the Septuagint version renders it, "unquenchable fire"; and so Mr.
Broughton; and such the fire of hell is said to be, Mt 3:12, &c. and which is a fire kindled by the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, Isa 30:33;it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle; not only it shall go ill with the wicked man himself, but with those he leaves behind him, that dwell in the house he formerly lived in, with his posterity; God sometimes punishing the iniquities of the fathers upon the children.