the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Job 20:27
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The heavens will reveal their guilt, and the earth will testify against them.
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him.
The heavens will show their guilt, and the earth will rise up against them.
The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, The earth shall rise up against him.
"The heavens will reveal his wickedness and guilt, And the earth will rise up against him.
The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
Heuenes schulen schewe his wickidnesse; and erthe schal rise togidere ayens hym.
The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
The heavens and the earth will testify against them,
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him.
The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.
The heavens will reveal his guilt, and the earth will rise up against him.
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
Heaven will prove that he is guilty. The earth will be a witness against him.
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
The heauen shall reueale his iniquitie: and the earth shall rise vp against him.
The heavens will make his sin known, and the earth will rise up against him.
The heavens will reveal their iniquity, and the earth will rise up against them.
The heauen shal declare his wickednes, & the earth shal rise vp against him.
The heaven shall reveal his sins; and the earth avenge itself upon him.
Heaven reveals their sin, and the earth gives testimony against them.
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and, the earth, be rising up against him:
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
The heauen shal declare his wickednesse, and the earth shall take part against him.
And let the heaven reveal his iniquities, and the earth rise up against him.
The heavens will expose his iniquity,and the earth will rise up against him.
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, The eretz shall rise up against him.
The heavens will reveal his guilt, and the earth will rise up against him.
The heavens shall expose his iniquity; and the earth shall be raising up itself against him.
Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.
The heauen shall declare his wickednesse, & the earth shal take parte agaynst him.
"The heavens will reveal his guilt, And the earth will rise up against him.
The heavens will reveal his iniquity, And the earth will rise up against him.
"The heavens will reveal his iniquity, And the earth will rise up against him.
The heavens will reveal his iniquity,And the earth will rise up against him.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
heaven: Psalms 44:20, Psalms 44:21, Jeremiah 29:23, Malachi 3:5, Luke 12:2, Luke 12:3, Romans 2:16, 1 Corinthians 4:5
earth: Job 16:18, Job 18:18, Isaiah 26:21
Reciprocal: Job 31:38 - cry John 8:9 - went out
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity,.... Either God the Maker and Possessor of heaven, who dwells there, and is sometimes so called, Daniel 4:25; who sees and knows all things, even those that are most secret, as well as more openly committed, and will make all manifest, sooner or later; or else the angels of heaven, the inhabitants of it, so the Targum; who in the last day will be employed in gathering out of Christ's kingdom all that offend, and do iniquity,
Matthew 13:41; or the judgments of God descending from heaven, or appear there, and are owing to it; such as drowning the old world by opening the windows of heaven, Genesis 7:11; the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah by fire and brimstone from thence, Genesis 19:24; and the destruction of persons by thunder, 2 Samuel 22:15, and lightning, 1 Samuel 2:10, and the like; which judgments falling upon men, show them to be guilty of crimes deserving of the wrath of God, see Romans 1:18;
and the earth shall rise up against him; when that becomes barren for the sins of men, and nothing but things hurtful to man rise up out of it; when it discloses the blood of murdered persons, and will at last give up the wicked dead that are buried in it; the Targum is,
"the inhabitants of the earth;''
and may be interpreted of their enmity, opposition, and hostility.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity - The meaning here is, that the whole creation would conspire against such a man. Heaven and earth would be arrayed against him. The course of events would be so ordered as to seem designed to bring his character out, and to show what he was. He would attempt to conceal his sin, but it would be in vain. He would hide it in his bosom, but it would be developed. He would put on the air of piety and innocence, but his secret sin would be known. This seems to be the general sense of the verse; and it is not necessary to attempt to show “how” it would be done - whether by lightning from heaven, as Noyes supposes, or whether by some direct manifestation from the skies. Probably the meaning is, that the divine dispensations toward such a man - the overwhelming calamities which he would experience, would show what he was. The word “heaven” is not unfrequently put for God himself. Daniel 4:23, “the heavens do rule.” Luke 15:21, “I have sinned against heaven.”
The earth shall rise up against him - Calamities from the earth. The course of events here. Want of success - sterility of soil - blight and mildew, would rise up against such a man and show what he was. His real character would in some way be brought out, and it would be seen that he was a wicked man; compare Judges 5:20.
They fought from heaven;
The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 20:27. The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. — Another allusion, if I mistake not, to the destruction of Korah and his company. The heaven revealed their iniquity; God declared out of heaven his judgment of their rebellion. "And the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the congregation;" Numbers 16:20, c. And then the earth rose up against them. "The ground clave asunder that was under them, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and they went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them;" Numbers 16:31-33.
