Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for 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
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?
Amplified
To whom I gave the wilderness as his home
And the salt land as 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 sets the wild donkey free? Who loosens the bonds of the wild donkey 6 to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place? 7 He despises city noises; he ignores the shouts of the driver.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 107:34
and a fruitful land into a salty waste, due to the wickedness of its inhabitants.
Deuteronomy 29:23
The whole land will be covered with salt pits and burning sulfur, with nothing planted, nothing sprouting, and producing no vegetation overthrown like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, when the LORD overthrew them in his raging fury.
Job 24:5
"Look! Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they work diligently as they seek wild game in the desert, food for them and their young ones.
Jeremiah 2:24
a wild donkey accustomed to the desert, sniffing the wind in her passion. When she's in heat, who can turn her away? None of the males who pursue her need to tire themselves out, for in her month they'll find her."
Jeremiah 17:6
He will be like a bush in the desert, and he won't see when good comes. He will dwell in parched places in the wilderness, a land of salt, without inhabitants.
Ezekiel 47:11
"The river delta will consist of swamps and marshes that will remain a salt water wetland preserve.
Hosea 8:9
"Because they went over to Assyria, they are like a wild donkey alone by itself. Ephraim has hired some lovers.