Job 39:6
Whose home I have made the wilderness,and the salt land his dwelling place?
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
In Context
5"Who has set the wild donkey free?Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
7He scorns the tumult of the city,neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23and that the whole land of it is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Psalms 107:34and a fruitful land into a salt waste,for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Jeremiah 17:6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria,like a wild donkey wandering alone.Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
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 →