Job 39:6

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 Living Translation (NLT)I have placed it in the wilderness; its home is the wasteland.

Context of Job 39:6

4Their young ones are healthy, They grow strong with grain; They depart and do not return to them. 5“Who set the wild donkey free? Who loosed the bonds of the onager, Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwelling? 7He scorns the tumult of the city; He does not heed the shouts of the driver. 8The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searches after every green thing.

Job 39:6 word by word

אֲשֶׁר־שַׂ֣מְתִּי עֲרָבָ֣ה בֵית֑וֹ וּֽמִשְׁכְּנוֹתָ֥יו מְלֵֽחָה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Whose houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• I have madeשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: putH7760
• the wildernessעֲרָבָה‛ărâbâh · plainH6160
• and the barrenמְלֵחָהmelêchâh · saltinessH4420
• land his dwellingsמִשְׁכָּןmishkân · tabernacleH4908

Cross-references for Job 39:6

• Deuteronomy 29:23‘The whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and His wrath.’
• Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
• Jeremiah 17:6For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, And shall not see when good comes, But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, In a salt land which is not inhabited.
• Ezekiel 47:11But its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given over 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

Topics related to Job 39:6

• God

In the dictionaries

• Abide
• Ass
• Harrow
• Liking
• Mount
• Paw
• Wisdom
• Barren; Barrenness
• Champaign
• Eagle

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