Job 39:6
I have given a house in solitude to him, and his tabernacle is in the salted land.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
In Context
5Who has set the wild ass free, and who has released his bonds?
7He despises the crowded city; he does not pay attention to the bellow of the tax collector.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23having burned it with sulphur and molten salt, so that it can no longer be sown. And certainly no greenery would spring up, as in the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overturned with his wrath and fury.
Jeremiah 17:6For he will be like a saltcedar tree in the desert. And he will not perceive it, when what is good has arrived. Instead, he will live in dryness, in a desert, in a land of salt, which is uninhabitable.
Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assur, a wild ass alone by himself. Ephraim has given presents to his 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 →