Job 39:6
I have given it the wilderness as its home, the salt plains as a place to live.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
In Context
5Who gave the wild donkey its freedom? Who set it free from its bonds?
7It despises the noise of the city; it doesn't need to listen to the shouts of a driver.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23The whole country will be a burning wasteland of sulfur and salt. Nothing is sown; it's totally unproductive; no plant grows there—just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his furious anger.
Psalms 107:34Fruitful ground becomes a salty wasteland because of the wickedness of those living there.
Jeremiah 17:6They will be like a shrub alone in the desert that isn't even aware when good things happen. It just goes on living in the dry desert, in a salt flat that's uninhabited.
Hosea 8:9They have gone up to Assyria like a donkey wandering alone. 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 →