69 occurrences

'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.

Verse ConceptsSatan, Character OfWanderersWhere From?SatanThe Devil

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?

Verse ConceptsBehaviourJustice, In Believers' LivesServants Of The LordNames And Titles For SatanAcclaimingUnique IndividualsIndividuals Fearing Godservanthoodshunning

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,

Verse ConceptsMantlesClothing, Tearing OfBarbersBaldnessBereavement, Experience OfHairsShavingTearing Of ClothesDressThose Who Tore Clothes

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.

Verse ConceptsSatan, Character OfWanderersWhere From?wandering

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.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesInciting To EvilServants Of The LordFear Of God, Examples OfUnique IndividualsIndividuals Fearing Godshunning

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.

Verse ConceptsGriefWeeksSeven DaysSitting In FellowshipIndividuals Being SilentLosing Friendsgrieving

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

Verse ConceptsGod Is UnchangeableArchaeologyKings And PrideResolving Conflictimpossible

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

Verse ConceptsFoundationsInsectsProperty, HousesMan, Insignificance OfMothsMetaphorical HousesCreatures From Dust

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

Verse ConceptsGod Appointed AfflictionsHardship

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

Verse ConceptsLaughterFear, Of NaturalWild Beasts SubduedHelp In ShortageFreed From FearOvercoming Adversity

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

Verse ConceptsAnimals, Care ForWild Beasts SubduedSleeping Peacefullycovenantprincipalities

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

Verse ConceptsGrassLike Grass

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?

Verse ConceptsLimitednessPunishment, Nature OfHirelingsThe Fact Of ToilstruggleWarLife StrugglesGetting Through Hard Timeshumanity

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

Verse ConceptsLife, HumanPhysical LifeShadowsLife, Brevity OfThose Who Were IgnorantTime PassingWeather In The Last Days

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

Verse ConceptsPlantsReedsMarshesPlants Growing Up

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

Verse ConceptsClayPouringClay, Figurative UseCreatures Returning To DustDeathdust

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.

Verse ConceptsFish

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

Verse ConceptsGod Drying Things UpFloods

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

Verse ConceptsWanderersFoolishness Of Men

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

Verse ConceptsClayAshes

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.

Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterThings Wearing OutWithout Hope

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.

Verse ConceptsTransient WealthDrawbacks To Riches

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

Verse ConceptsKidneys

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

Verse ConceptsHuman Blood Shed

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

Verse ConceptsGoing Down To The PitMaggotscorruptionworms

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?

Verse ConceptsRocksGod Is JustPeople Torn To Pieces

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.

Verse ConceptsPeople Withered

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

Verse ConceptsOblivionDeath Of The WickedForgetting Peopleremembrance

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

Verse ConceptsPeople Beginning

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

Verse ConceptsExposure Of SinSin Made KnownThe Universe Affected

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.

Verse ConceptsPoor, Oppression OfHiding From PeopleTragedy On The StreetsNot Helping The Poor

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.

Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterPurgatory

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.

Verse ConceptsWidowsActual WidowsNot Mourning

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

Verse ConceptsIronMinerals

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.

Verse ConceptsFeetSwinging

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

Verse ConceptsEarth, God SustainingFood Defined

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

Verse ConceptsVeilsGod, All knowingGod Seeing All The Earth

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

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes Of

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

Verse ConceptsRocksPeople In Caves

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.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Symbol Of Strength

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

Verse ConceptsCreatures Returning To DustMarshes

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

Verse ConceptsNot Reaping What You SowSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

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

Verse ConceptsEcological ConcernsComplaining

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

Verse ConceptsGodly Fear, DescriptionClayClay, Figurative UseLike People By NatureOther People Of God

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?

Verse ConceptsBeastsGod Teaching

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

Verse ConceptsLightningFlat Earth

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

Verse ConceptsFacing SouthHot Weather

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

Verse ConceptsThe Wicked Will PerishThe End Of The WorldThe Earth

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

Verse ConceptsClaySealsHoly Spirit, Types OfClay, UsesSealing Things

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

Verse ConceptsPeople With General Knowledge

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

Verse ConceptsLightningOut Of The EastDirectionThe East Wind

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

Verse ConceptsControlling Sun Moon And StarsTaking Care Of The Earthdominion

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

Verse ConceptsBottles, Figurative UseUncountableWater ContainersGod Sending RainSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

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

Verse ConceptsThings Stuck Together

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

Verse ConceptsEggsAnimal OffspringWarmingAnimals Forsaking

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

Verse ConceptsNot Being StillNot Stilldistance

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

Verse ConceptsThreshingThings UnderMarshes

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

Verse ConceptsUnique CreaturesThose Not Fearingfearless

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.

Verse ConceptsBeautifulBad ParentsInheritance, MaterialParents Duty To ChildrenBeauty, In WomenInheritanceWomen's BeautyBeautiful Women

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