Job 9:6

“Which shaketh the earth out of her place, etc.] Can do it, and will do it at the last day, when it shall be utterly broken down, clean dissolved, and reel to and fro like a drunkard, and be removed as a cottage, and which John in a vision saw flee away from the presence of him that sat upon the throne, (<232419>Isaiah 24:19,20 <662011>Revelation 20:11); for this cannot be understood of earthquakes in common, which are only partial, and do not remove the earth out of its place, only shake some parts of it; and this may also refer to the time of the flood, when the earth received some change and alteration in its situation, as Mr. Burnet in his Theory of the Earth observes; and the Apostle…”

“The earth is regarded, poetically, as resting on pillars, which tremble in an earthquake (Psa 75:3; Isa 24:20). The literal truth as to the earth is given (Job 26:7).”

“Which shaketh the earth out of her place - This evidently refers to violent convulsions of nature, as if the earth were to be taken away. Objects on the earth’s surface become displaced, and convulsion seems to seize the world. The Septuagint renders this, “who shaketh that which is under the heavens from its foundations” - ἐκ Θεμελίων ek themeliōn. The change in the Hebrew would be very slight to authorize this rendering. And the pillars thereof tremble - In this place the earth is represented as sustained like a building by pillars or columns. Whether this is a mere poetic representation, or whether it describes the actual belief of the speaker in regard to the structure of the earth,…”

“The earth - Great portions of it, by earthquakes, or by removing islands. Pillars - The deep and inward parts of it, which like pillars supported those parts that appear to our view. Job 9:8”

“shaketh: Isa 2:19, Isa 2:21, Isa 13:13, Isa 13:14, Isa 24:1, Isa 24:19, Isa 24:20; Hag 2:6, Hag 2:21; Heb 12:26; Rev 20:11 the pillars: Job 26:11, Job 38:4-7; Sa1 2:8; Psa 75:3, Psa 114:7; Jer 4:24; Joe 2:10 Job 9:7”