Job 39:6 “I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.”

Job 39:6

I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

World English Bible

whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

American Standard Version

Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?

Geneva Bible 1599

They bow them selues: they bruise their yong and cast out their sorowes.

Darby Translation

Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?

Young's Literal Translation

Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,

Bible in Basic English

To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

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Cross references

“barren land”

Psalm 107:34 Deuteronomy 29:23 Jeremiah 17:6 Ezekiel 47:11

Psalm 107:34 · BSB

and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.

Deuteronomy 29:23 · BSB

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 an…

Jeremiah 17:6 · BSB

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.

Ezekiel 47:11 · BSB

But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

Also

Jeremiah 2:24 Job 24:5 Hosea 8:9

Jeremiah 2:24 · BSB

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.

Job 24:5 · BSB

Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

Hosea 8:9 · BSB

For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?

7He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.

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