Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 39:6
Barren land] RV 'salt land,' districts coated with this mineral, which is much sought after by cattle.
Barren land] RV 'salt land,' districts coated with this mineral, which is much sought after by cattle.
Verse Job 39:6. _WHOSE HOUSE_] Habitation, or place of resort. _THE BARREN LAND_] מלחה _melechah_, the _salt land_, or _salt_ _places_, as in the margin. See above....
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...
CHAPTER S 38:39--39:30 _ 1. The beasts of prey (Job 38:39)_ 2. The wild goats, the ass, the unicorn and the ostrich (Job 39:1) 3. The horse, the hawk and the eagle (Job 39:19)...
The wild ass. Who gave the wild ass his freedom and his indomitable love of liberty who scorns the noise of cities and laughs at the shouts of the driver, which his tame brother obeys? The point of th...
Job 38:39 Ch. Job 39:30. The manifoldness of the Divine Mind as displayed in the world of animal life The instances chosen are the lion and the raven (Job 38:39); the wild goats and the hinds (ch....
2. And of the animal world (Job 39:1, Job 40:2) TEXT 39:1-30 to Job 40:2 39 KNOWEST THOU THE TIME WHEN THE WILD GOATS OF THE ROCK BRING FORTH? _Or_ canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? 2 Canst...
_WHOSE HOUSE I HAVE MADE THE WILDERNESS, AND THE BARREN LAND HIS DWELLINGS._ Barren - literally, salt - i:e., unfruitful х_ MªLEECHAAH_ (H4420)]. (So "barrenness," Psalms 107:34, margin, saltness.)...
39:6 wilderness, (b-6) Heb. _ Arabah_ . see Joshua 3:16 ....
A tame donkey is a loyal animal. It is a small horse that can carry heavy loads. But the wild donkey does not obey any man’s orders. It is not like the army horse, which fights men’s battles (verses 1...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 39 GOD SPEAKS ABOUT BIRDS A...
The animals in these verses are called goats, donkeys and oxen. (Oxen is the plural of ox.) These animals are common animals on the farms in many countries. On the farm, these are tame animals. But Go...
אֲשֶׁר ־שַׂ֣מְתִּי עֲרָבָ֣ה בֵיתֹ֑ו וּֽ מִשְׁכְּנֹותָ֥יו...
XXVIII. THE RECONCILIATION Job 38:1 - Job 42:6 THE main argument of the address ascribed to the Almighty is contained in Chapter s 38 and 39 and in the opening verses of chapter 42. Job makes submis...
“KNOWEST THOU?” “CANST THOU?” Job 39:1 The series of questions is continued, and God asks more especially with respect to animated and organic nature. The wild goats, Job 39:1; the wild ass, Job 39:5...
And still the unveiling goes forward: the mystery of the begetting and birth of lower animals, with the sorrows of travail, and the finding of strength; the freedom and wildness and splendid untameabl...
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the (f) barren land his dwellings. (f) That is, the barren ground where no good fruit grows....
_Barren. Literally, "salt." (Haydock) --- This is of a nitrous quality, which renders those countries barren. The salt in snow and dung gives warmth and fruitfulness._...
(5) Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? (6) Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. (7) He scorneth the multitude of t...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 38 THROUGH 42. Jehovah then speaks, and addressing Job, carries on the subject. He makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be vile, an...
WHOSE HOUSE I HAVE MADE THE WILDERNESS,.... Appointed that to be his place of residence, as being agreeable to his nature, at a distance from men, and in the less danger of being brought into subjecti...
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. Ver. 6. _Whose house I have made the wilderness_] That of Arabia especially near unto Job, where were whole droves of these...
_Whose house I have made the wilderness_ Which uses and loves to dwell in desert lands; _and the barren land his dwellings_ Called barren, not simply, for then he must be starved there, but comparativ...
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land, the desert, the salt-steppe, HIS DWELLINGS; for it was there that he preferred to live, satisfied with the food offered by the saline plant...
V. 1. KNOWEST THOU THE TIME WHEN THE WILD GOATS OF THE ROCK BRING FORTH, their homes being on the rocks near the summits of the mountains? OR CANST THOU MARK WHEN THE HINDS DO CALVE, noting the travai...
THE WILD GOATS AND THE DEER (vv.1-4) The Lord now turns Job's attention to animals not in the least aggressive, the wild goats and the deer. Indeed, rather than aggressive, they are elusive. Did Job...
THE BARREN LAND: _ Heb._ salt places...
Who useth and loveth to dwell in desert lands, JEREMIAH 2:24 HOSEA 8:3,9. THE BARREN LAND; called _barren_, not simply, for then he must be starved there; but comparatively, unmanaged, and therefore i...
Job 39:6 home H1004 made H7760 (H8804) wilderness H6160 barren H4420 dwelling H4908 barren land - Heb. salt places,...
BARREN LAND Hebrew, "salt places....
CONTENTS: God's challenge to Job continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job. CONCLUSION: When we consider God's wonderful works in all nature about us, and see how wonderfully even the brute creatures are fitt...
Job 39:1. _The wild goat,_ on the Arabian rocks, leaps with incredible celerity from rock to rock, and leaves the dogs and wolves behind. She hides her young in those retreats. They follow the laws of...
NOTES Job 39:13. “_Gatest thou the goodly wings unto the peacock, or wings and feathers into the ostrich?_” (MARGIN: “The feathers of the stork and ostrich.”) The whole verse very variously rendered....
EXPOSITION JOB 39:1 This chapter completes the survey of animate nature begun at Job 38:39. The habits and instincts of the wild goat, the wild ass, and wild cattle are first noticed (Job 38:1); then...
Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? can you mark when the hinds calve? Can you number the months that they fulfil? [Do you know how long their pregnancies are?] or do you...
Deuteronomy 29:23; Ezekiel 47:11; Jeremiah 17:6; Psalms 107:34...