Footnote

a While many Bible translations render the Hebrew term ’eʹrets “land” instead of “earth,” there is no reason to limit ’eʹrets at Psalm 37:11, 29 to just the land given to the nation of Israel. Old Testament Word Studies by William Wilson defines ’eʹrets as “the earth in the largest sense, both the habitable and uninhabitable parts; with some accompanying word of limitation, it is used of some portion of the earth’s surface, a land or country.” So the first and primary meaning of the Hebrew word is our planet, or globe, the earth.​—See The Watchtower, January 1, 1986, page 31.