“Poor people are like wild donkeys\par wandering in the desert\par searching for food.\par They get up early in the morning\par to search for food.\par They work late into the evening\par getting food for their children.\par
Job 39:6 - Easy To Read Version I (God) let the wild donkey\par have the desert for a home.\par I gave the salt lands to them\par for a place to live.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Whose house I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwellings. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place? American Standard Version (1901) Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place? Common English Bible to whom I gave the desert as home, his dwelling place in the salt flats? Catholic Public Domain Version 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 To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land. |
“Poor people are like wild donkeys\par wandering in the desert\par searching for food.\par They get up early in the morning\par to search for food.\par They work late into the evening\par getting food for their children.\par
Wild donkeys laugh at the noisy towns.\par And no person can control them.\par
God changed the fertile land\par and it became worthless salty land.\par Why? Because of the bad people\par who were living in that place.\par
Wild donkeys stand on the bare hills.\par They sniff the wind like jackals. {\cf2\super [121]} \par But their eyes can’t find any food,\par because there are no plants to eat.\par
Those people are like a bush in a desert.\par That bush is in a land where no people live.\par That bush is in a hot and dry land.\par That bush is in a bad soil.\par That bush does not know\par about the good things that God can give.\par
You are like a wild donkey\par that lives in the desert.\par At mating time, she sniffs (smells)\par the wind.\par No person can bring her back\par at the time she is in heat.\par At mating time, every male that wants her\par will get her.\par It is easy to find her.\par
But the swamps and small areas of wet land will not become fresh. They will be left for salt.
Ephraim {\cf2\super [79]} went to his ‘lovers.’\par Like a wild donkey,\par he wandered off to Assyria.\par
All the land will be useless—destroyed by burning sulfur and covered with salt. The land will have nothing planted in it. Nothing will be growing—not even weeds. The land will be destroyed like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, the cities the Lord destroyed when he was very angry.