Job 39:6
4 Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.
5 Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
7 He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
8 He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
- KJV
- Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
- WEB
- whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?
- ASV
- Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?
- DARBY
- Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?
- BLB
- whose I have made the Arabah house, the salt land [as] his dwelling?
- ÅB
- det som jeg gav ørkenen til hus og saltmoen til bolig?
- OTB
- Til hvem jeg ga ørkenen som et hjem,
Og saltlandet som hans bolig? - B1930
- det som jeg gav ørkenen til hus og saltmoen til bolig?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 107:34
and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 29:23
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
Read in contextJeremiah 2:24
a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
Read in contextJob 24:5
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
Read in contextJeremiah 17:6
He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
Read in contextEzekiel 47:11
But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
Read in contextHosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
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