Job 39:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ to which I have given the steppe for its home, the salt land for its dwelling place?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Whose house I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwellings.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?

Common English Bible

⁶ to whom I gave the desert as home, his dwelling place in the salt flats?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ I have given a house in solitude to him, and his tabernacle is in the salted land.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.

Job 39:6 Cross References

Job 24:5

Like wild asses in the desert they go out to their toil, scavenging in the wasteland food for their young.

Job 39:7

It scorns the tumult of the city; it does not hear the shouts of the driver.

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

Jeremiah 14:6

The wild asses stand on the bare heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no herbage.

Jeremiah 17:6

They shall be like a shrub in the desert and shall not see when relief comes. They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild ass at home in the wilderness in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.

Ezekiel 47:11

But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.

Hosea 8:9

For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass wandering alone; Ephraim has bargained for lovers.

Deuteronomy 29:23

all its soil burned out by sulfur and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, unable to support any vegetation, like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his fierce anger—