Job 39:6

New International Reader's Version

I gave them the dry and empty land as their home. I gave them salt flats to live in.

Cross References

Job 24:5

The poor are like wild donkeys in the desert. They have to go around looking for food. The dry and empty land provides the only food for their children.

Job 39:7

They laugh at all the noise in town. They do not hear the shouts of the donkey drivers.

Psalm 107:34

He turned land that produced crops into a salty land where nothing could grow. He did it because the people who lived there were evil.

Jeremiah 14:6

Wild donkeys stand on the bare hilltops. They long for water as wild dogs do. Their eyesight fails because they do not have any food to eat.”

Jeremiah 17:6

They will be like a bush in a dry and empty land. They will not enjoy success when it comes. They will live in dry places in the desert. It is a land of salt where no one else lives.

Jeremiah 2:24

You are like a wild donkey that lives in the desert. She smells the wind when she longs for a mate. Who can hold her back? The males that run after her do not need to wear themselves out. At mating time they will easily find her.

Ezekiel 47:11

But none of the swamps will have fresh water in them. They will stay salty.

Hosea 8:9

They have gone up to Assyria for help. They are like a wild donkey that wanders around by itself. Ephraim’s people have sold themselves to their Assyrian lovers.

Deuteronomy 29:23

The whole land will be burned up. Nothing but salt and sulfur will be left. Nothing will be planted there. Nothing will grow there. In fact, nothing will even start to grow there. The land will be like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim after they were destroyed. The Lord wiped out those cities because he was very angry.