Job 39:6

Whose bais I have made the aravah, 1 and the barren land his mishkenot (dwellings)? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

In Context

5Who hath sent out the pere (wild donkey) free, 1 or who hath untied the ropes of the arod (wild donkey, onager), 1

7He laughs at the tumult of the kiryah (city), 1 neither regardeth he the shouts of the driver. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:23Even Kol HaGoyim shall say, Why hath Hashem done thus unto this land? What meaneth the heat of this af hagadol (great anger)?

Psalms 107:34An eretz p'ri (fruitful land) into salt wasteland, 1 because of the wickedness of them that dwell therein. 1

Jeremiah 17:6For he shall be like the shrub in the aravah (desert), 1 and shall not see when tov cometh; 1 but shall inhabit the parched places in the midbar, 1 in an eretz melechah (salt land) and not inhabited. 1

Hosea 8:9For they are gone up to Assyria, 1 a pere (wild donkey) off by itself alone; 1 Ephrayim hath sold herself to ahavim (lovers). 1

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 →

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