Job 39:6 · KJV
“Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. {barren...: Heb. salt places}”
— Job 39:6
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. {of the driver: Heb. of the exactor}
Job 39 — Context
Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
5Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
6Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. {barren...: Heb. salt places}
7He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. {of the driver: Heb. of the exactor}
8The range of the mountains {is} his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Cross References
Psalms 107:34
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. {barrenness: Heb. saltiness}
Job 24:5
Behold, {as} wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness {yieldeth} food for them {and} for {their} children.
Jeremiah 2:24
A wild ass used to the wilderness, {that} snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her. {A wild...: or, O wild ass, etc} {used: Heb. taught} {her pleasure: Heb. the desire of her heart} {turn...: or, reverse it?}
Jeremiah 17:6
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, {in} a salt land and not inhabited.
Deuteronomy 29:23
{And that} the whole land thereof {is} brimstone, and salt, {and} burning, {that} it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Ezekiel 47:11
But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. {shall not...: or, and that which shall not be healed}
Hosea 8:9
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. {lovers: Heb. loves}