Job 39:6
Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?
American Standard Version
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? Or who hath loosed the bonds of the swift ass,
7He scorneth the tumult of the city, Neither heareth he the shoutings of the driver.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23[and that] the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Jeremiah 17:6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
Hosea 8:9For they are gone up to Assyria, [like] 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 →