Job 39:6
Whose house I have made the wilderness, || And his dwellings the barren land,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
In Context
5Who has sent forth the wild donkey free? Indeed, who opened the bands of the wild donkey?
7He laughs at the multitude of a city, || He does not hear the cries of an exactor.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23The whole land is burned [with] brimstone and salt, it is not sown, nor does it shoot up, nor does any herb go up on it there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which YHWH overturned in His anger and in His fury.
Psalms 107:34A fruitful land becomes a barren place, || For the wickedness of its inhabitants.
Jeremiah 17:6And he has been as a naked thing in a desert, || And does not see when good comes, || And has inhabited parched places in a wilderness, || A salt land, and not inhabited.
Hosea 8:9For they have gone up [to] Asshur, || A wild donkey alone by himself [is] Ephraim, || They have 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 →