King James Version
Job 39:6 in the King James Version says “Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. barren: Heb. salt places” — study this verse from Job chapter 39 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. barren: Heb. salt places”
Job 39:6 · KJV
Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. barren: Heb. salt places
He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. of the driver: Heb. of the exactor
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
KJV Study — Public Domain
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“I have made”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“the wilderness”
H6160a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the jordan and its continuation to the red sea
“Whose house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“land his dwellings”
H4908a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave; also the temple); specifically, the tabernacle (properly, its w
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