Job 39:6
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
Webster 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 wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
7He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23And that the whole land of it is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor doth it bear, nor doth any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath:
Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it.
Jeremiah 17:6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath 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 →