Job Chapter 39 verse 6 Holy Bible
Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?
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They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.
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Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?
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Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
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They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
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Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?
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Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - Whose house I have made the wilderness. The Mesopotamian regions inhabited by the Asinus hemippus are those vast stretches of rolling plain, treeless, producing a few aromatic shrubs and much wormwood, which intervene between the Sinjar mountain-range and the Babylonian alluvium. Here the wild ass was seen by Xenophon and the Ten Thousand, in company with ostriches, gazelles, and bustards (Xen., 'Anab.,' 1:5); and here Sir Austin Layard also made its acquaintance ('Nineveh and Babylon,' p. 270). The Asians onager frequents the deserts of Khorassan and Beloochistan, which are even more barren than the Mesepotamian. And the barren land his dwellings; rather, the salt land (see the Revised Version). The great desert of Khorassan is largely impregnated with salt, and in places encrusted with it. The wild ass licks salt with avidity.