Job 39:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.”
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BSBPD
“I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 39:6 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 29:23All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
- Job 24:5Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
- Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
- Jeremiah 2:24a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
- Jeremiah 17:6He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
- Ezekiel 47:11But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
- Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
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