Job 39:6
Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
In Context
5Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,
7He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23[that] the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, [and] burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury:
Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Jeremiah 17:6And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
Hosea 8:9For they are gone up [to] Assyria [as] a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath 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 →