Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land 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
International Standard Version
to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for 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 has sent out the wild donkey free? Or who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey 6 whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place? 7 He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shoutings of the driver.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 107:34
a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.
Deuteronomy 29:23
[that] the whole land of it is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which LORD overthrew in his anger, and i
Job 24:5
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness [yields] them bread for their sons.
Jeremiah 2:24
a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs up the wind in her desire. In her time of estrus who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month they shall find her.
Jeremiah 17:6
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.
Ezekiel 47:11
But the miry places of it, and the marshes of it, shall not be healed. They shall be given up to salt.
Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria [like] a wild donkey alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.