Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,
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?
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 39:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Wild Donkey
5 Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of the wild ass who opened? 6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land, 7 He doth laugh at the multitude of a city, The cries of an exactor he heareth not.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 107:34
A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.
Deuteronomy 29:23
(with brimstone and salt is the whole land burnt, it is not sown, nor doth it shoot up, nor doth there go up on it any herb, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overturned in His anger, and in His fury,) --
Job 24:5
Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones.
Jeremiah 2:24
A wild ass accustomed to a wilderness, In the desire of her soul she hath swallowed up wind, Her meeting -- who doth turn her back? None seeking her do weary themselves, In her month they find her.
Jeremiah 17:6
And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited.
Ezekiel 47:11
Its miry and its marshy places -- they are not healed; to salt they have been given up.
Hosea 8:9
For they -- they have gone up to Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself is Ephraim, They have hired lovers!