300 Foxes and a Donkey's Jawbone
The largest number of Hebrew uses of the phrase the foundations of the earth have been rendered from the Hebrew root yasad. It's here where we find the meaning which ties us directly to our Biblical theory of gravity.
There is a description of the core accretion model in the Hebrew text of Job 28:3. We make a systematic survey of the text, and bring forth this meaning.
The basic building block of Hebrew poetry is the couplet (also called a distich or bicolon), which consists of two contiguous lines related to each other by form and by content.
The shadow of death: וְצַלְמָֽוֶת - tsalmaveth [death-like shadow, deep shadow] meaning to roll or tumble down. i.e. sink, sinking in the shadow of death.
It's surrounded by stones in thick darkness. What darkness? The gloom of the underworld, sheol, the underworld realm of the dead. The deep places of the Earth.
Generally; the common stone of the field; a stone which may be thrown with the hand.
The hollow place or the inside of a chariot; also of an altar where the fire is kept. Mass is surrounded by the hollow interior of the Earth where there's fire?
It, referring back to the subject of Part A of the couplet in Job 28:3, is either mass or time.
In this case shell is referring to a layer of sediment, or layers of sediment which are stratified.