Job 39 · Verse 6

Job 39:6

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
Job 39:6, King James Version

Job 39:6 in other translations

BSBI made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
WEBwhose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?
ASVWhose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?
YLTWhose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,
DARBYWhose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?
BBETo whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.
WebsterWhose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

What does Job 39:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
6. barren--literally, "salt," that is, unfruitful. (So Psa 107:34, Margin.)

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 Whose house - Habitation, or place of resort. The barren land - מלחה melechah, the salt land, or salt places, as in the margin. See above.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Job 39:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-whichH834
שַׂ֣מְתִּיSam.tiI appointedH7760
עֲרָבָ֣ה'a.ra.Vah[the] desert plainH6160
בֵית֑וֹvei.Tohome itsH1004
וּֽמִשְׁכְּנוֹתָ֥יוu.mish.ke.no.Tavand dwelling-places itsH4908
מְלֵֽחָה\׃me.Le.chah[the] saltinessH4420

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 39:6

  • Psalms 107:34

    A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

  • Deuteronomy 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:

  • Jeremiah 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.

  • Job 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.

  • Jeremiah 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.

  • Ezekiel 47:11

    But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.

  • Hosea 8:9

    For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

Ranked by reader votes · OpenBible.info cross references (CC BY).

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
barren land. Heb. salt places.
De 29:23; Ps 107:34; Jer 17:6; Eze 47:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 39:5

    Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

  • Job 39:6

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

  • Job 39:7

    He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.

Read all of Job 39

Job 39:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Encórvanse, hacen salir sus hijos, pasan sus dolores.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Auquel j’ai donné le désert pour maison, et la terre salée pour demeure?
German
Elberfelder 1871		zu dessen Hause ich die Steppe gemacht, und zu seinen Wohnungen das Salzland?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		cui dedi in solitudine domum, et tabernacula ejus in terra salsuginis.