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Job 39:6
6Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?
Job 39:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
- New International Version (NIV)I gave it the wasteland as its home, the salt flats as its habitat.
- English Standard Version (ESV)to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwelling?
Context of Job 39:6
4Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them. 5Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager, Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings? 7He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver; 8The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Read all of Job 39Job 39:6 word by word
אֲשֶׁר־שַׂ֣מְתִּי עֲרָבָ֣ה בֵית֑וֹ וּֽמִשְׁכְּנוֹתָ֥יו מְלֵֽחָה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 39:6
- Deuteronomy 29:23[that] the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, [and] burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury:
- Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
- Jeremiah 17:6And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
- Ezekiel 47:11But its marshes and its pools shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
Commentaries on Job 39:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Whose house - Habitation, or place of resort. The barren land - מלחה melechah, the salt land, or salt places, as in the margin. See above.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Whose house I have made - God had appointed its home in the desert. And the barren land his dwellings - Margin, as in Hebrew “salt places.” Such places were usually barren. Psalm 107:34, “he turneth a fruitful land into barrenness.” Hebrew “saltness.” Thus, Virgil, Geor. ii. 238-240: Salsa antem tellus, et quae, perhibetur amara. Frugibus infelix: ea nec mansuescit arando; Nec Baccho genus, aut pomis sua nomina servat. Compare Pliny, Nat. His. 31,7…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-7the wild donkey … scorns the tumult of the city: This is the first example in a series of animals that think little of other animals not their equal (compare 39:18, 22; 41:29). These images show how God scorns the opposition of a person like Job (see Psalm 2:4).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. barren--literally, "salt," that is, unfruitful. (So Psa 107:34, Margin.)Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 39
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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