New International Version
Job 39:6
6I gave it the wasteland as its home, the salt flats as its habitat.
Job 39:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
- 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?
- New Living Translation (NLT)I have placed it in the wilderness; its home is the wasteland.
Context of Job 39:6
4Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds; they leave and do not return. 5“Who let the wild donkey go free? Who untied its ropes? I gave it the wasteland as its home, the salt flats as its habitat. 7It laughs at the commotion in the town; it does not hear a driver’s shout. 8It ranges the hills for its pasture and searches for any green thing.
Read all of Job 39Job 39:6 word by word
אֲשֶׁר־שַׂ֣מְתִּי עֲרָבָ֣ה בֵית֑וֹ וּֽמִשְׁכְּנוֹתָ֥יו מְלֵֽחָה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 39:6
- Deuteronomy 29:23The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger.
- Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.
- Jeremiah 17:6That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
- Ezekiel 47:11But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for 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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