The verse says nothing about a ball, for all we know, the writer could have had in mind a garden of eden swing.
One , or a handful of verses in 30 000 to be correct is not a bad score to be uniquely insightful.
They certainly did not understand that the earth would actually fall up to the sun when they saw it in daytime.
Think of the swing to have go at 30 km a second average not to rise up. ( ~ 48 000 cubits per watch ) ha ha.
The Writer did not understand the difference between the gravity of the sun and the pull centered on the earth.
Fun fact: at times the planets actually orbit around nothing, when the planets pull the baricenter outside the suns surface.