Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.
New American Standard Bible
And the earth will rise up against him.
King James Version
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
Holman Bible
and the earth will rise up against him.
International Standard Version
Heaven will reveal his iniquity, while the earth will rise up against him.
A Conservative Version
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
American Standard Version
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him.
Amplified
“The heavens will reveal his wickedness and guilt,
And the earth will rise up against him.
Darby Translation
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
Julia Smith Translation
The heavens shall uncover his iniquity, and the earth an adversary against him.
King James 2000
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] heavens will reveal his guilt, and [the] earth will rise up against him.
Modern King James verseion
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth rise up against him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The heaven shall declare his wickedness, and the earth shall take part against him.
NET Bible
The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.
New Heart English Bible
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.
The Emphasized Bible
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and, the earth, be rising up against him:
Webster
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
World English Bible
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.
Youngs Literal Translation
Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.
Interlinear
Galah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 20:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long
26 All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent. 27 The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him. 28 The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.
Cross References
Job 16:18
O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!
Isaiah 26:21
For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.
Deuteronomy 31:28
Get together before me all those who are in authority in your tribes, and your overseers, so that I may say these things in their hearing, and make heaven and earth my witnesses against them.
Job 18:18
He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
Psalm 44:20-21
If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,
Jeremiah 29:23
Because they have done shame in Israel, and have taken their neighbours' wives, and in my name have said false words, which I did not give them orders to say; and I myself am the witness, says the Lord.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
Luke 12:2-3
But nothing is covered up, which will not come to light, or secret, which will not be made clear.
Romans 2:16
In the day when God will be a judge of the secrets of men, as it says in the good news of which I am a preacher, through Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 4:5
For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.