'Earth' in the Bible

The Lord said to Satan, “From where do you come?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”

The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil.”

The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”

The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

With kings and with counselors of the earth,Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;

“He gives rain on the earthAnd sends water on the fields,

“You will know also that your descendants will be many,And your offspring as the grass of the earth.

“Is not man forced to labor on earth,And are not his days like the days of a hired man?

“For we are only of yesterday and know nothing,Because our days on earth are as a shadow.

Who shakes the earth out of its place,And its pillars tremble;

“The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;He covers the faces of its judges.If it is not He, then who is it?

“Its measure is longer than the earthAnd broader than the sea.

“Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you;And let the fish of the sea declare to you.

“Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up;And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.

Water wears away stones,Its torrents wash away the dust of the earth;So You destroy man’s hope.

“O earth, do not cover my blood,And let there be no resting place for my cry.

“O you who tear yourself in your anger—For your sake is the earth to be abandoned,Or the rock to be moved from its place?

“Memory of him perishes from the earth,And he has no name abroad.

“As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.

“Do you know this from of old,From the establishment of man on earth,

“The heavens will reveal his iniquity,And the earth will rise up against him.

“But the earth belongs to the mighty man,And the honorable man dwells in it.

“They are insignificant on the surface of the water;Their portion is cursed on the earth.They do not turn toward the vineyards.

“He stretches out the north over empty spaceAnd hangs the earth on nothing.

“The earth, from it comes food,And underneath it is turned up as fire.

“For He looks to the ends of the earthAnd sees everything under the heavens.

So that they dwell in dreadful valleys,In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

“Who gave Him authority over the earth?And who has laid on Him the whole world?

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earthAnd makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

“Under the whole heaven He lets it loose,And His lightning to the ends of the earth.

“For to the snow He says, ‘Fall on the earth,’And to the downpour and the rain, ‘Be strong.’

“It changes direction, turning around by His guidance,That it may do whatever He commands itOn the face of the inhabited earth.

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?Tell Me, if you have understanding,

That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,And the wicked be shaken out of it?

“Have you understood the expanse of the earth?Tell Me, if you know all this.

“Where is the way that the light is divided,Or the east wind scattered on the earth?

“Do you know the ordinances of the heavens,Or fix their rule over the earth?

For she abandons her eggs to the earthAnd warms them in the dust,

“Nothing on earth is like him,One made without fear.