| Job 39:6 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | To whom I gave the wilderness for a home And the salt land for his dwelling place? (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | I gave it the desert to live in and the salt flats as its dwelling place.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. |
| ASV: | Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place? |
| BBE: | To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place. |
| DBY: | Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings? |
| ERV: | Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place. |
| JPS: | Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place. |
| WBS: | Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. |
| WEB: | Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place? |
| YLT: | Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land, |
| Job 39:6 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 24:5 "Behold, as wild donkeys in the wilderness They go forth seeking food in their activity, As bread for their children in the desert.
Jeremiah 2:24 A wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness, That sniffs the wind in her passion. In the time of her heat who can turn her away? All who seek her will not become weary; In her month they will find her.
Hosea 8:9 For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey all alone; Ephraim has hired lovers. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 39:6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the {f} barren land his dwellings.
(f) That is, the barren ground where no good fruit grows. |
| MHC: | 39:1-30 God inquires of Job concerning several animals. - In these questions the Lord continued to humble Job. In this chapter several animals are spoken of, whose nature or situation particularly show the power, wisdom, and manifold works of God. The wild ass. It is better to labour and be good for something, than to ramble and be good for nothing. From the untameableness of this and other creatures, we may see, how unfit we are to give law to Providence, who cannot give law even to a wild ass's colt. The unicorn, a strong, stately, proud creature. He is able to serve, but not willing; and God challenges Job to force him to it. It is a great mercy if, where God gives strength for service, he gives a heart; it is what we should pray for, and reason ourselves into, which the brutes cannot do. Those gifts are not always the most valuable that make the finest show. Who would not rather have the voice of the nightingale, than the tail of the peacock; the eye of the eagle and her soaring wing, and the natural affection of the stork, than the beautiful feathers of the ostrich, which can never rise above the earth, and is without natural affection? The description of the war-horse helps to explain the character of presumptuous sinners. Every one turneth to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle. When a man's heart is fully set in him to do evil, and he is carried on in a wicked way, by the violence of his appetites and passions, there is no making him fear the wrath of God, and the fatal consequences of sin. Secure sinners think themselves as safe in their sins as the eagle in her nest on high, in the clefts of the rocks; but I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord, #Jer 49:16". All these beautiful references to the works of nature, should teach us a right view of the riches of the wisdom of Him who made and sustains all things. The want of right views concerning the wisdom of God, which is ever present in all things, led Job to think and speak unworthily of Providence. |
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