Job 39:6
Whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, 1 And the salt land his coverts. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
In Context
5And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? 1 And who loosed his bands? 1
7He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, 1 And hears not the chiding of the tax gatherer. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23brimstone and burning salt (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his wrath and anger)—
Jeremiah 17:6And he shall be as the wild tamarisk in the desert: he shall not see when good comes; but he shall dwell in barren places, and in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.
Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to the Assyrians: Ephraim has been strengthened against himself; they loved 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 →