Parallel Verses
Amplified
To whom I gave the wilderness as his home
And the salt land as his dwelling place?
New American Standard Bible
And the salt land for his dwelling place?
King James Version
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
Holman Bible
and the salty
International Standard Version
to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place?
A Conservative Version
whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place?
American Standard Version
Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?
Bible in Basic English
To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.
Darby Translation
Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?
Julia Smith Translation
To whom did I set the desert his house, and the salt land his dwellings?
King James 2000
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[to] which I have given [the] wilderness [as] its house and [the] salt flat [as] its dwelling place?
Modern King James verseion
to whom I have assigned the wilderness for its home, and the salt land for its dwellings?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Unto whom I have given the wilderness to be their house, and the untilled land to be their dwelling place:
NET Bible
to whom I appointed the steppe for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place?
New Heart English Bible
Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?
The Emphasized Bible
Whose house I have made the waste plain, and his dwellings, the land of salt:
Webster
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
World English Bible
Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?
Youngs Literal Translation
Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 39:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Wild Donkey
5
“Who sent out the wild donkey free [from dependence on man]?
And who has loosed the bonds of the wild donkey [to survive in the wild],
To whom I gave the wilderness as his home
And the salt land as his dwelling place?
“He scorns the tumult of the city,
And does not hear the shouting of the taskmaster.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 107:34
A productive land into a [barren] salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Deuteronomy 29:23
‘The whole land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it; it is like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and wrath.’
Job 24:5
“Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert,
The poor go to their work, diligently seeking food;
As bread for their children in the desert.
Jeremiah 2:24
Or [you have the untamed and reckless nature of] a wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness,
That sniffs the wind in her passion [for the scent of a mate].
In her mating season who can restrain her?
No males seeking her need to weary themselves;
In her month they will find her [looking for them].
Jeremiah 17:6
“For he will be like a shrub in the [parched] desert;
And shall not see prosperity when it comes,
But shall live in the rocky places of the wilderness,
In an uninhabited salt land.
Ezekiel 47:11
But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh [and wholesome for animal life]; they will [as the river subsides] be left encrusted with salt.
Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria,
Like a wild donkey wandering alone and taking her own way;
Ephraim has hired lovers (pagan allies).