Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
11 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “earth” →
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men , unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men , to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
