Job 39:6
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?
Basic English Translation (BBE)
To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.
Webster's Revision
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?
English Revised Version (ERV)
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place.
Clarke's Job 39:6 Bible Commentary
Whose house - Habitation, or place of resort.
The barren land - מלחה melechah, the salt land, or salt places, as in the margin. See above.
Barnes's Job 39:6 Bible Commentary
Whose house I have made - God had appointed its home in the desert.
And the barren land his dwellings - Margin, as in Hebrew "salt places." Such places were usually barren. Psalm 107:34, "he turneth a fruitful land into barrenness." Hebrew "saltness." Thus, Virgil, Geor. ii.-238-240:
Salsa antem tellus, et quae, perhibetur amara.
Frugibus infelix: ea nec mansuescit arando;
Nec Baccho genus, aut pomis sua nomina servat.
Compare Pliny, Nat. His. 31, 7, Deuteronomy 29:23.
