Job 39:6
4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every 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
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 29:23
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Read in contextJeremiah 2:24
A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
Read in contextJob 24:5
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
Read in contextJeremiah 17:6
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Read in contextEzekiel 47:11
But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
Read in contextHosea 8:9
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
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