New Living Translation
Job 39:6
6I have placed it in the wilderness; its home is the wasteland.
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 grow up in the open fields, then leave home and never return. 5“Who gives the wild donkey its freedom? Who untied its ropes? I have placed it in the wilderness; its home is the wasteland. 7It hates the noise of the city and has no driver to shout at it. 8The mountains are its pastureland, where it searches for every blade of grass.
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 29:23They will exclaim, ‘The whole land is devastated by sulfur and salt. It is a wasteland with nothing planted and nothing growing, not even a blade of grass. It is like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger.’
- Psalms 107:34He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands, because of the wickedness of those who live there.
- Jeremiah 17:6They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness, in an uninhabited salty land.
- Ezekiel 47:11But the marshes and swamps will not be purified; they will still be salty.
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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