Job 39:6
Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,
Young's Literal Translation
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? Yea, the bands of the wild ass who opened?
7He doth laugh at the multitude of a city, The cries of an exactor he heareth not.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23([with] brimstone and salt is the whole land burnt, it is not sown, nor doth it shoot up, nor doth there go up on it any herb, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overturned in His anger, and in His fury,) —
Psalms 107:34A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.
Jeremiah 17:6And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited.
Hosea 8:9For they — they have gone up [to] Asshur, A wild ass alone by 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 →