Job 39:6

In 11 translations

BSB

I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.

KJV

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.barren…: Heb. salt places

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Whose house I have made the wilderness, || And his dwellings the barren land,

YLT

Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,

DBY

Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?

DRC

To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.

GNV39:9

It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the salt places his dwellings.

JPS

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place.

LXXE

whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts.

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WLC

אֲשֶׁר־שַׂ֣מְתִּי עֲרָבָ֣ה בֵית֑וֹ וּֽמִשְׁכְּנוֹתָ֥יו מְלֵֽחָה׃

LXX-Br

Ἐθέμην δὲ τὴν δίαιταν αὐτοῦ ἔρημον, καὶ τὰ σκηνώματα αὐτοῦ ἁλμυρίδα.

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• Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
• Jeremiah 2:24a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
• Jeremiah 17:6He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
• Deuteronomy 29:23All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce…
• Job 24:5Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
• Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
• Ezekiel 47:11But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

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