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Selected Verse: Job 39:6 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 39:6 |
King James |
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| barren--literally, "salt," that is, unfruitful. (So Psa 107:34, Margin.) |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Whose house I have made - God had appointed its home in the desert.
And the barren land his dwellings - Margin, as in Hebrew "salt places." Such places were usually barren. Psa 107:34, "he turneth a fruitful land into barrenness." Hebrew "saltness." Thus, Virgil, Geor. ii. 238-240:
Salsa antem tellus, et quae, perhibetur amara.
Frugibus infelix: ea nec mansuescit arando;
Nec Baccho genus, aut pomis sua nomina servat.
Compare Pliny, Nat. His. 31, 7, Deu 29:23. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
barren land
Hebrew, "salt places." |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Whose house - Habitation, or place of resort.
The barren land - מלחה melechah, the salt land, or salt places, as in the margin. See above. |
34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
23 And 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:
34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.