How do christians explain bible saying earth has pillars?

Job 9:6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.



Psalms 75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.How do christians explain bible saying earth has pillars?
It's a figure of speech. The Bible is a book of literature, too.
Enough with the metaphors!

A lake of fire...

come on lakes have water!How do christians explain bible saying earth has pillars?
Pillars are rocks...mountains etc.
metaphorical languageHow do christians explain bible saying earth has pillars?
You realize that Job and Psalms are both poetical books, right?



Or maybe you don't.



Last time I checked, science textbooks were not filled to the brim with poetry.



Just sayin...
Oh my.



If a man is said to be a pillar in the community is he cast in concrete to hold up a building?



I think you search the Bible for things like this to somehow discount it. Pillar has many meanings.



You have much to learn, child.
Figurative Use. The material and function of structural pillars made them fitting symbols of sturdy support. They would illustrate that which securely upholds. The Christian congregation could be called “a pillar and support of the truth,” for it upholds the truth in contrast to religious error. (1Ti 3:15) James, Cephas, and John were spoken of as ‘seeming to be pillars’ in the early congregation; they were solidly fixed and strong supporters of it. (Ga 2:9) Christians who conquer will be made pillars in “the temple” of God, gaining a permanent position in the spiritual structure. (Re 3:12) The idea of the sturdiness of a pillar is found in the allusions to pillars in describing the feet of a strong angel. (Re 10:1) The legs of the shepherd lover of the Shulammite girl were like “pillars of marble,” being beautiful as well as strong.—Ca 5:15.
met·a·phor? ?/?m?t??f?r, -f?r/ Show Spelled[met-uh-fawr, -fer] Show IPA

–noun

1. a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our god.” Compare mixed metaphor, simile ( def. 1 ) .

2. something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else; emblem; symbol.



Really?