Job 39:6
Whose house I have made the waste plain, and his dwellings, the land of salt:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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? And, the bands of the swift-runner, who hath loosed?
7He laugheth at the throng of the city, The shoutings of the driver, he heareth not;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23brimstone and salt burning up all the land thereof, it shall not be sown neither shall it shoot forth neither shall there come up thereon any herbage,—like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrow in his anger and in his wrath:
Psalms 107:34A Land of Fruit, into a waste of salt, For the wickedness of them who dwell therein.
Jeremiah 17:6Therefore shall he become as a shrub in the waste plain, Neither shall he perceive when good cometh, But shall inhabit Parched places in a wilderness, A land of salt that cannot be dwelt in.
Hosea 8:9For, they, have gone up to Assyria, A wild ass going alone for himself, is Ephraim! They have 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 →