Parallel Verses
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?
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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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 39:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Wild Donkey
5
Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey?
6
And the salt land for his dwelling place?
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 107:34
and fertile ground into a layer of salt because of the wickedness of the people living there.
Deuteronomy 29:23
All its land is brimstone and salt. It is a burning waste, unsown and unproductive. No grass grows on it. Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath.
Job 24:5
Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their toil. They search in the wasteland food for their young.
Jeremiah 2:24
You are like a wild donkey accustomed to the desert. You sniff at the wind while in heat. All who seek you will not get tired. They will find you during your monthly period.
Jeremiah 17:6
He will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes. He will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitant.
Ezekiel 47:11
But the water in the swamps and marshes will not become fresh. It will remain salty.
Hosea 8:9
The people of Israel went to Assyria. They were like wild donkeys wandering off alone. The people of Ephraim sold themselves to their lovers.