Job 39:6
To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 his bonds?
7He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of the driver.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:
Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Jeremiah 17:6For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited.
Hosea 8:9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts 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 →