Job 39:6
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Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
In other translations
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Psalm 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
- Deuteronomy 29:23And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:All 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.
- Jeremiah 17:6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.He 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.
- Job 24:5Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
- Jeremiah 2:24A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.a 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.
- Hosea 8:9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
- Ezekiel 47:11But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
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