'Earth' in the Bible

And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.

And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?

Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,

And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.

And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.

And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;

Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:

You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth.

For you will be in agreement with the stones of the earth, and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.

You will be certain that your seed will be great, and your offspring like the plants of the earth.

Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?

Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking:

O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it.

Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.

Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.

He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!

If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;

But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.

He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.

For his eyes go to the ends of the earth, and he sees everything under heaven.

They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.

For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.

Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.

Who put the earth into his care, or made him responsible for the world?

Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?

He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.

You, whose clothing is warm, when the earth is quiet because of the south wind,

Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,

Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;

Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.

On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear.

And there were no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the earth: and their father gave them a heritage among their brothers.