Job 20:27
Good News Translation
Heaven reveals their sin, and the earth gives testimony against them.

New Revised Standard Version
The heavens will reveal their iniquity, and the earth will rise up against them.

Contemporary English Version
The heavens and the earth will testify against them,

New American Bible
The heavens shall reveal his guilt, and the earth rise up against him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

heaven

Psalm 44:20,21 For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath covered us. . . .

Jeremiah 29:23 Because they have acted folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with the wives of their friends, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I commanded them not: I am the judge and the witness, saith the Lord.

Malachi 3:5 And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Luke 12:2,3 For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed: nor hidden that shall not be known. . . .

Romans 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore, judge not before the time: until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise from God.

earth

Job 16:18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee.

Job 18:18 He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.

Isaiah 26:21 For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.

Context
Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
26All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle. 27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.28The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God's wrath.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:28
Gather unto me all the ancients of your tribes, and your doctors, and I will speak these words in their hearing, and will call heaven and earth to witness against them.

Isaiah 26:21
For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.

Job 20:26
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