'On Earth' in the Bible

{before any plant of the field was} on earth, and [before] {any plant of the field} had sprung up, because Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no human being to cultivate the ground,

So God announced to Noah, "I've decided to destroy every living thing on earth, because it has become filled with violence due to them. Look! I'm about to annihilate them, along with the earth.

“Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will die.

Every living thing on earth died flying creatures, livestock, wildlife, all creatures that swarm over the earth, and all human beings.

The bow will be in the clouds, and I will look at it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all the living creatures on earth.”

God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have confirmed between Me and every creature on earth.”

And Cush fathered Nimrod. {He was the first on earth to be a mighty warrior}.

These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their family records, in their nations. The nations on earth spread out from these after the flood.

I will bless those who bless you,I will curse those who treat you with contempt,and all the peoples on earthwill be blessed through you.

The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is aging, and there is not a man on earth [available] to be intimate with us in the customary way [so that we may have children].

when he had a dream! He saw a raised highway that had been built with its ending point on earth and its beginning point in heaven. God's angels were ascending and descending on it.

Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out toward the west, the east, the north, and the south. All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.

"I'm 130 years old," Jacob replied. "My years have turned out to be few and unpleasant, but I haven't yet reached the age my ancestors did during their travels on earth."

Your houses will be filled, along with the houses of all your officials and the houses of all the Egyptians something that neither your fathers nor your ancestors ever saw from the time they were on earth until now.'" Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh's presence.

"You are not to craft for yourselves an idol or anything resembling what is in the skies above, or on earth beneath, or in the water sources under the earth.

Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth.

‘O Lord God, You have only begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth that can do such works and mighty acts (miracles) as Yours?

That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord said to me, Make all the people come together, so that hearing my words they may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this teaching to their children.

any animal on earth, any winged bird that flies in the sky,

Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

Today, recognize and keep in mind that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below; there is no other.

You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:

These are the laws and the decisions which you are to keep with care in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to be your heritage all the days of your life on earth.

And as soon as we had heard it, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Jehovah your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.

"Look here: today I'm going down the path that everyone on earth takes, and you know with all your hearts and souls that not a single word of all of the good things that the LORD your God spoke about you has failed to happen. Everything has been fulfilled about you not one of them has failed.

Then the five men went on their way and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, living without thought of danger, like the Zidonians, quiet and safe; for they had everything on earth for their needs, and they were far from the Zidonians and had no business with Aram.

When you get there, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has handed it over to you. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”

When everyone who had known him previously saw him prophesying with the prophets, the people all asked one another, "What on earth has happened to the son of Kish? Does even Saul belong with the prophets?"

For as long as the son of Jesse lives upon earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. And now send and fetch him to me, for he must die.

And see ye, and know of all the hiding places where he will hide there, and turn back to me prepared, and I went with you: and it being if he is on earth, and I sought him in all the thousands of Judah.

"""Furthermore, I have remained with you everywhere you have gone, annihilating all your enemies right in front of you. I will make a great reputation for you, like the reputation of great ones who have lived on earth.

What one nation on earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people and to make a name for Himself, and to do great and awesome things for Yourself and for Your land, before Your people whom You have redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, from nations and their gods?

Now the whole clan has risen up against your servant and said, ‘Hand over the one who killed his brother so we may put him to death for the life of the brother he murdered. We will destroy the heir!’ They would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on earth.”

Joab your servant has done this to address the issue indirectly, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the Angel of God, knowing everything on earth.”

"I'm headed down the road that everyone who lives on earth travels, so be strong and demonstrate that you're a grown man

People came from everywhere, sent by every king on earth who had heard of his wisdom, to listen to Solomon’s wisdom.

And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:

But will God indeed live on earth?Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You,much less this temple I have built.

may You hear in heaven, Your dwelling place,and do according to all the foreigner asks You for.Then all the people on earth will know Your name,to fear You as Your people Israel doand know that this temple I have builtis called by Your name.

For You, Lord God, have set them apart as Your inheritancefrom all the people on earth,as You spoke through Your servant Moseswhen You brought their ancestors out of Egypt.

And Cush fathered Nimrod; he himself began to be mighty on earth.

"""Furthermore, I have remained with you everywhere you have gone, annihilating all your enemies right in front of you. I will make your reputation great, like the reputation of the great ones who have lived on earth.

And who [is] like your people Israel, [the] one nation upon earth whom God went to redeem for himself, to establish for you a reputation for great and awesome things, to drive out nations from before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?

Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in the heavens and on earth belongs to You. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.

For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].

and he said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven, or on earth; who keepest covenant and lovingkindness with thy servants, that walk before thee with all their heart;

But will God indeed live on earth with man?Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You,much less this temple I have built.

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil.”

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him, to destroy him without just cause.”

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.

Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

"The ungodly is very swift: O that his portion also upon earth were swifter than the running water, which suffereth not the shipman to behold the fair and pleasant vineyards.

“He wraps the waters in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once],And the cloud does not burst under them.

Mankind doesn't appreciate their value; and you won't find it anywhere on earth.

“Even though you say that you do not see Him [when missing His righteous judgment on earth],Yet your case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!

For he will say to the snow, Be it on earth; and to the shower of rain, and to the shower of the rains of his strength.

Do you know the laws of heaven?Can you impose its authority on earth?

Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

The LORD shall preserve him, and keep him alive: he shall make him to prosper upon earth, and shall not deliver him into the will of his enemies.

"Be still then, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the Heathen, I will be exalted upon earth."

No, in heart you work unrighteousness;On earth you weigh out the violence of your hands.

Then people will say,“Yes, there is a reward for the righteous!There is a God who judges on earth!”

From the most remote place on earth I call out to you in my despair. Lead me up to an inaccessible rocky summit!

That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.

O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.

They choose to speak against heaven; while they talk about things on earth.

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

But God is my King of old; the help that is done upon earth, he doeth it himself.

yea, when God ariseth to give judgment, and to help all them that be in adversity upon earth. Selah.

His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

A sojourner I am on earth, Hide not from me Thy commands.

They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.

I have seen that nothing on earth is complete; but your teaching is very wide.

You remove all the wicked on earthas if they were dross;therefore, I love Your decrees.

Whatever the Lord pleases, He does,In the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all deeps—

All the kings on earth will give You thanks, Lord,when they hear what You have promised.

Let not a man of evil tongue be safe on earth: let destruction overtake the violent man with blow on blow.

He sendeth out his commandment upon earth; His word runneth very swiftly.

Praise the LORD upon earth, ye dragons, and all deeps;

before He made the land, the fields,or the first soil on earth.

If the righteous will be rewarded on the earth [with godly blessings],How much more [will] the wicked and the sinner [be repaid with punishment]!

Dross silver overlaid upon earthenware, so are burning lips, with a mischievous heart:

Four things on earth are small,yet they are extremely wise:

What does a man gain from all of the work that he undertakes on earth?

Whatever has happened, will happen again; whatever has been done, will be done again. There is nothing new on earth.

I decided to carefully and thoroughly examine all that has been accomplished on earth. I concluded: God has given people a burdensome task that keeps them occupied.

I observed every activity done on earth. My conclusion: all of it is pointless like chasing after the wind.

I thought deeply about the effects of indulging myself with wine (all the while my mind was guiding me with wisdom) and the effects of behaving foolishly, so that I might discover what is profitable for people to do on earth during the few days of their lives.

Then I examined all of my accomplishments that I had brought about by my own efforts, including the work that I had labored so hard to complete and it was all pointless, like chasing after the wind, and there was nothing to be gained on earth.

So I hated life, because whatever is done on earth causes me trouble it's all pointless, like chasing after the wind.

Then I despised everything I had worked for on earth, that is, the things that I will leave to the person who will succeed me.

And who knows whether he will be wise or foolish? Either way, he will take possession of everything that I have done on earth, especially where I have excelled. This also is pointless.

So I came to be in despair about everything I had accomplished on earth.

For what does a person gain from everything that he accomplishes and from his inner life struggles that he undergoes while working on earth?

For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth:

I also examined on earth: where the halls of justice were supposed to be, there was lawlessness; and where the righteous were supposed to be, there was lawlessness. 17I told myself, "God will judge both the righteous and the wicked, because there is a time set to judge every event and every work."