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Job 39:6
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4 Their young ones are healthy,
They grow strong with grain;
They depart and do not return to them.
5 “Who set the wild donkey free?
Who loosed the bonds of the1 onager, 
6 aWhose home I have made the wilderness,
And the1 barren land his dwelling? 
7 He scorns the tumult of the city;
He does not heed the shouts of the driver.
8 The range of the mountains is his pasture,
And he searches after aevery green thing. 
9 “Will the awild ox be willing to serve you?
Will he bed by your manger? 
10 Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes?
Or will he plow the valleys behind you?
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Job 39:6

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. Psalms 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, Deuteronomy 29:23.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Job 39:6:

Job 40:15
Psalms 107:34

 

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