Job 39:6
whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
In Context
5Who has sent out the wild donkey free? Or who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey
7He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shoutings of the driver.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23[that] the whole land of it is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which LORD overthrew in his anger, and i
Psalms 107:34a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.
Jeremiah 17:6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria [like] a wild donkey alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.
Matthew Henry on Job 39:2-13
Man's Ignorance of the Animal Creation; Description of the Wild Goat, Hind, Wild Ass, and Unicorn. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? 2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? 3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. 4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. 5… Read the whole commentary →