Job 39:6
I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
In Context
5Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
7He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
Jeremiah 17:6He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. 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 →