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Job 20:27 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 27. 27The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
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Role in This Section
Job 20:27 advances the thought unit with the words “The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.” Zophar states “The heaven shall reveal his iniquity” as one poetic claim in Zophar Calls Disaster the Wicked's Appointed Portion.
Read It With
- Job 20:23–20:29
Read Job 20:27 with 20:23–20:29. Read alone, “The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Zophar pictures divine fury, inescapable weapons, exposed heavens, flooded property, and a divinely allotted inheritance of wrath.
Why It Needs Context
Job 20:27 depends on 20:23–20:29; isolating “The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Zophar and “Zophar Calls Disaster the Wicked's Appointed Portion.”
Read Job 20:23–29 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 20:23–20:29 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Zophar Calls Disaster the Wicked's Appointed Portion.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 23. 23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
Verse 24. 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
Verse 25. 25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
Verse 26. 26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
Verse 27. 27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
Verse 28. 28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
Verse 29. 29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Continue in Context
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 20:23–20:29, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
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