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Job 39:6
Job 39:6 is verse 6 of Job chapter 39, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
King James Version
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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Job 39:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
4 Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.
5 Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
6 I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
7 He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
8 He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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 anger.
Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
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.
Ezekiel 47:11But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.