27 The heavens will expose his guilt; the earth will rise up against him.
27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
27 The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
27 God will strip them of their sin-soaked clothes and hang their dirty laundry out for all to see.
27 The heavens will reveal his iniquity, And the earth will rise up against him.
27 The heavens will reveal their guilt, and the earth will testify against them.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 20:27
Commentary on Job 20:23-29
(Read Job 20:23-29)
Zophar, having described the vexations which attend wicked practices, shows their ruin from God's wrath. There is no fence against this, but in Christ, who is the only Covert from the storm and tempest, Isaiah 32:2. Zophar concludes, "This is the portion of a wicked man from God;" it is allotted him. Never was any doctrine better explained, or worse applied, than this by Zophar, who intended to prove Job a hypocrite. Let us receive the good explanation, and make a better application, for warning to ourselves, to stand in awe and sin not. One view of Jesus, directed by the Holy Spirit, and by him suitably impressed upon our souls, will quell a thousand carnal reasonings about the suffering of the faithful.