Job 39:6
Modern Translations
New International Version
I gave it the wasteland as its home, the salt flats as its habitat.

New Living Translation
I have placed it in the wilderness; its home is the wasteland.

English Standard Version
to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place?

Berean Study Bible
I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.

New American Standard Bible
To whom I gave the wilderness as his home, And the salt land as his dwelling place?

NASB 1995
To whom I gave the wilderness for a home And the salt land for his dwelling place?

NASB 1977
To whom I gave the wilderness for a home, And the salt land for his dwelling place?

Amplified Bible
To whom I gave the wilderness as his home And the salt land as his dwelling place?

Christian Standard Bible
I made the desert its home, and the salty wasteland its dwelling.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I made the wilderness its home, and the salty wasteland its dwelling.

Contemporary English Version
I alone help them survive in salty desert sand.

Good News Translation
I gave them the desert to be their home, and let them live on the salt plains.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I gave it the desert to live in and the salt flats as its dwelling place.

International Standard Version
to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place?

NET Bible
to whom I appointed the steppe for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place?
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

New King James Version
Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwelling?

King James 2000 Bible
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

New Heart English Bible
Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

World English Bible
Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

American King James Version
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

American Standard Version
Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?

A Faithful Version
To whom I gave the wilderness for its home, and the salt land for its dwellings?

Darby Bible Translation
Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?

English Revised Version
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place.

Webster's Bible Translation
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
(39:9) It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the salt places his dwellings.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Euen I which haue geuen the wyldernesse to be their house, and the vntilled land to be their dwelling.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Vnto who I haue geuen the wyldernes to be their house, & the vntilled londe to be their dwellinge place.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Whose house I have made the wilderness, "" And his dwellings the barren land,

Young's Literal Translation
Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,

Smith's Literal Translation
To whom did I set the desert his house, and the salt land his dwellings?

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.

Catholic Public Domain Version
I have given a house in solitude to him, and his tabernacle is in the salted land.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
That makes the valley his house, and his dwelling in the place of salt?

Lamsa Bible
For he has made the plain his house, and the salt land his dwelling place.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Whose house I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts.
















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