Job 39:6
I am the one who put them in the desert, in places where grass does not grow.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
In Context
5“Who allows the wild donkeys to go wherever they want [DOU]?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23They will see that all your land has been ruined by burning sulfur and salt. Nothing will have been planted. Not even weeds will grow there. Your land will resemble Sodom and Gomorrah cities, and Admah and Zeboiim cities, which Yahweh destroyed when he was very angry [DOU] with the people who lived there.
Psalms 107:34Sometimes he causes land that has produced lots of crops to become salty wastelands, with the result that they do not produce crops. He does that because the people who live there are very wicked.
Jeremiah 17:6They are like dry bushes in the desert, they are people who will not experience any good things. Those people will live in the barren desert in a salty area, where nothing grows.
Hosea 8:9Like [MET] donkeys that are looking for mates, they have requested help from Assyria; they paid money to the leaders of Assyria in order to persuade those leaders to protect them.
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 →