Did Job Say That the Earth was in Space?

“He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.” Job 26:7. Scholars believe that the Book of Job was written about 587 to 538 B.C., based on the book’s vocabulary and use of scripture. It says, “…over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.” Wow! Today, we know this is true; the Earth is a planet in space. But in ancient times, this was different from what other cultures believed. The Egyptians believed that the sun and moon gods were on a river, the Greeks believed in a floating disk surrounded by a great river, and the Babylonian sky was a solid dome. 

Job didn’t learn this from other people. The Greek astronomer Aristarchus (310-230 B.C.) first proposed that the earth revolved around the sun and was thus in space. This was hundreds of years after Job.  

Job learned it from God.