Job 20:27

27. The heaven… and the earth Zophar may have had in mind Job’s appeal to the heaven and earth, (Job 16:18-19.) With the good man, Eliphaz had said, (Job 5:22-23,) all nature stands in loving concord: against the bad man, adds Zophar, the heavens and the earth (as in Job’s case, chaps. i, ii) rise in dread conspiracy. The catastrophe of the wicked serves to bring to light their secret sins, a truth he bends into a boomerang to hurl at Job. Nature has no burial place for sin. God’s word is pledged that all sin shall finally be brought forth to the light. The earth, unwilling to tolerate the sinner any longer, is represented as rising up against him. The new heaven and the new earth (Revelation 21:1) cannot be inaugurated until the last sinner has been cast forth from his grave.