Job 20:27
What does Job 20:27 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 20:27 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him.
KJV
King James Version · 1611The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
- Psalms 44:20
If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
- Deuteronomy 31:28
Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
- Jeremiah 29:23
because they have wrought folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I commanded them not; and I am he that knoweth, and am witness, saith Jehovah.
- Isaiah 26:21
For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
- Romans 2:16
in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.
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