Translations are not always good because even the translators had issues. This passage has to do with the orbit of the earth. A better word is circuit. It literally means a guard walking around what he is guarding. ONLY the mean is much more because this talks about the seasons in the year and in our life. The days, weeks, months, years that just keep going around in their circle or their circuit. Yet like a tree we learn and we grow and we gain a little bit every time we go around. In understanding the Bible we really do not begin to understand until we have studies the Bible for 40 years. IN the Hebrew faith there are things they do not study until they are at least 40 years of age. Just like the Children of Israel wondered in the desert for 40 years before they could enter into the promised land. Moses use to go on 40 day fasts when he would seek God.
The "orbit of the earth" is not a circle.
Your interpretation does not fit the cosmetology of that time period of Egypt and Moses.
See the Interpreter's Dictionary .
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http://wlym.com/archive/pedagogicals/aristarchus.html
"Remember that Mesopotamian phrase, “circle of the earth” that meant a flat disc terra firma? Well, it’s in the Bible too. “It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers” (Isa. 40:22). Some have tried to say that the Hebrew word for “circle” could mean sphere, but it does not. The Hebrew word used here (ḥûg) could however refer to a vaulted dome that covers the visible circular horizon, which would be more accurate to say, “above the vault of the earth.”23 If Isaiah had wanted to say the earth was a sphere he would have used another word that he used in a previous chapter (22:18) for a ball, but he did not.24 Two further Scriptures use this “circle of the earth” in reference to God’s original creation of the land out of the waters and extend it outward to include the circumferential ocean with its own mysterious boundary: Prov. 8:27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep… 29 when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth.
Job 26:10 He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light
and darkness [where the sun rises and sets].
Even when the Old Testament writers are deliberately using metaphors for the earth, they use metaphors
for a flat earth spread out like a flat blanket.
Job 38:13 “take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it”
Job 38:18 Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?
Psa. 136:6 to him who spread out the earth above the waters
Isa. 44:24 “I am the LORD, who spread out the earth by myself,
Geocentricity
In the Bible, the earth is not merely a flat disk surrounded by cosmic waters under the heavens; it is
also the center of the universe. To the ancient Near Eastern mindset, including that of the Hebrews, the
earth did not move (except for earthquakes) and the sun revolved around that immovable earth. They did
not know that the earth was spinning one thousand miles an hour and flying through space at 65,000 miles
an hour. Evidently, God did not consider it important enough to correct this primitive inaccurate
understanding. Here are the passages that caused such trouble with those early Christians who took the
text too literally because it did not seem to be figurative to them:
Psa. 19:4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their utterances to the end of the
world. In them He has placed a tent for the sun, 5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of
his chamber; It rejoices as a strong man to run his course. 6 Its rising is from one end of the
heavens, And its circuit to the other end of them.
Psa. 50:1 The Mighty One, God, the LORD, has spoken, And summoned the earth from the
rising of the sun to its setting.
Eccl. 1:5 Also, the sun rises and the sun sets; And hastening to its place it rises there again.
Josh. 10:13 So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped…And the
sun stopped in the middle
of the sky, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.
Matt. 5:45 Jesus said, “For He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good.”
Two objections are often raised when considering these passages. First, they use phenomenal language.
That is, they describe simply what the viewer observes and makes no cosmological claims beyond simply
description of what one sees. We even use these terms of the sun rising and setting today and we know the
earth moves around the sun. Fair enough. The only problem is they were pre-scientific and did not know
the earth went around the sun, so when they said the sun was moving from one end of the heavens to the
other they had absolutely no reason to believe that it was not doing so."
https://biologos.org/files/modules/godawa_scholarly_paper_2.pdf
