EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 39:6
6No! It was me who gave them the desert as their home. I let them live in places where the ground has salt.
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
4The young animals grow and they become strong in the fields. Then they leave their parents and they do not return to them. 5Did you send out the wild donkeys to go wherever they want? No! It was me who gave them the desert as their home. I let them live in places where the ground has salt. 7They stay far away from the busy cities. They do not allow anyone to make them work. 8Instead, they live on the hills, where they find fresh plants to eat.
Read all of Job 39Job 39:6 word by word
אֲשֶׁר־שַׂ֣מְתִּי עֲרָבָ֣ה בֵית֑וֹ וּֽמִשְׁכְּנוֹתָ֥יו מְלֵֽחָה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 39:6
- Deuteronomy 29:23The whole land will become spoiled with salt and sulphur. No one will plant seed in it, because nothing will grow there. Even grass will not grow on it. The land will be useless, like the cities that the Lord destroyed when he was very angry with them. Those cities were Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim.
- Jeremiah 17:6They will be like a bush that grows in the desert. It grows in a place where nobody can live. The ground is very dry and is spoiled by salt. Even when good times come, those people will not receive any good thing.
- Ezekiel 47:11But the water in the pools and the wet places around the Salt Sea will not become pure. There will still be salt for people there.
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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