Job 39:6
To whom I assigned the wilderness as his house, and the salty land as his dwellings.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
In Context
5Who sent out the wild ass free? or who loosened the bonds of the forest-ass?
7He laugheth at the noise of a town, and the shoutings of the driver he heareth not.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23(29:22) [That] the whole soil thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning waste, which is not sown, and beareth not, and in which no kind of grass springeth up, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:—
Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into a salty waste, for the wickedness of those that dwell therein.
Jeremiah 17:6And he shall be like a lonely tree in the desert, which feeleth not when the good cometh; but abideth in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salty land which cannot be inhabited.
Hosea 8:9For they are needs gone up to Assyria, they who like a wild ass should dwell alone: Ephraim spendeth lovers' gifts.
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 →