Devine Scripture

Job 39:6

Job chapter 39 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.5Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bonds of the swift ass,

v.6This passage

v.7He scorneth the tumult of the city, Neither heareth he the shoutings of the driver.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ezekiel 47:11

    But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

  • Jeremiah 2:24

    a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

  • Hosea 8:9

    For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

  • Job 24:5

    Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wildernessyieldeththem bread for their children.

  • Deuteronomy 29:23

    and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

  • Psalms 107:34

    A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.