Job 39:6

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

…whose I have made the Arabah house, the salt land as his dwelling?

Latin

…cui dedi in solitudine domum, et tabernacula ejus in terra salsuginis.

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Job 39:5–7

the 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).

Job 38:1–40:5

God challenges Job. Job admits he cannot judge the moral world. God shows Job's ignorance of the natural world's elements related to the realm of heaven, weather, animals, and birds (38:4–21; 22–38; 39–39:30).

Theme notes and profiles

Complaints God’s Uniqueness

Events

Job's Trialc. 1650 BC

Related verses

Psalm 107:34
…and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
Deuteronomy 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.
Jeremiah 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.
Jeremiah 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.
Job 24:5
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
Ezekiel 47:11
But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.

Glossary

Book of Job Donkey Proverbs, Book of Wisdom Literature

Topics

Beasts: Unclean: Wild Ass God: Providence of God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To the Wild Donkey: Inhabits Wild and Solitary Places

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