Job 39:6

New English Translation

to whom I appointed the steppe for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place?

Cross References

Job 24:5

Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor, seeking diligently for food; the wasteland provides food for them and for their children.

Job 39:7

It scorns the tumult in the town; it does not hear the shouts of a driver.

Psalm 107:34

and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

Jeremiah 14:6

Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals. Their eyes are strained looking for food, because there is none to be found.”

Jeremiah 17:6

They will be like a shrub in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live.

Jeremiah 2:24

You are like a wild female donkey brought up in the wilderness. In her lust she sniffs the wind to get the scent of a male. No one can hold her back when she is in heat. None of the males need wear themselves out chasing after her. At mating time she is easy to find.

Ezekiel 47:11

But its swamps and its marshes will not become fresh; they will remain salty.

Hosea 8:9

They have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey that wanders off. Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.

Deuteronomy 29:23

The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger.