Job 39:6

World English Bible (2000)

Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 107:34 : 34 and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
  • Jer 2:24 : 24 a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.
  • Jer 17:6 : 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
  • Deut 29:23 : 23 [and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
  • Job 24:5 : 5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
  • Ezek 47:11 : 11 But the miry places of it, and its marshes, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
  • Hos 8:9 : 9 For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

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  • 5 "Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

  • Job 39:7-8
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    7 He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.

    8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.

  • 28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

  • 17 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"

  • 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

  • Ps 107:33-36
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    33 He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

    34 and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

    35 He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.

    36 There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,

  • 6 For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, [and] the head of Lebanon; [yet] surely I will make you a wilderness, [and] cities which are not inhabited.

  • 39 Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation.

  • 26 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;

  • 25 Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

  • 11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • 40 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

  • 6 For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle.

  • 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

  • 5 I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

  • 2 But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in forever."

  • 5 I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.

  • 6 Neither did they say, 'Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?'

  • 11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

  • 15 The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

  • 5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

  • 6 God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

  • 43 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

  • 5 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.

  • 20 The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

  • Jer 25:37-38
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    37 The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

    38 He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.

  • 24 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.'

  • 15 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.

  • 3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

  • 14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

  • 6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

  • 19 Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

  • 14 For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;

  • 8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

  • 14 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

  • 15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.

  • 6 I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

  • 10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

  • 6 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

  • 19 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):

  • 7 But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

  • 12 And Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

  • 6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • 8 Yahweh's voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

  • 9 Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,