Job 39:6
To whom I have given the wilderness for his house, And the barren land for his dwelling-place?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
In Context
5Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass,
7He scorneth the tumult of the city, And heedeth not the shouting of the driver;
Cross References
Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Jeremiah 17:6He shall be like a poor wanderer in the desert, Who seeth not when good cometh, But dwelleth in the parched places of the desert, In a salt land, and uninhabited.
Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a solitary wild-ass; Ephraim hireth 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 →