Teks -- Job 39:6 (NET)

39:6 to whom I appointed the steppe for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place?

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Job 39:6 - barren

Literally, "salt," that is, unfruitful. (So Psa 107:34, Margin.)

Clarke: Job 39:6 - Whose house

Whose house - Habitation, or place of resort

Clarke: Job 39:6 - The barren land

The barren land - מלחה melechah , the salt land, or salt places, as in the margin. See above.

TSK: Job 39:6 - barren land

barren land : Heb. salt places, Deu 29:23; Psa 107:34; Jer 17:6; Eze 47:11

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Job 39:6 - The barren land

Who useth and loveth to dwell in desert lands, Jer 2:24 Hos 8:3,9 .

The barren land called barren , not simply, for then he must be starved there; but comparatively, unmanaged, and therefore in a great measure unfruitful land.

Haydock: Job 39:6 - Barren

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.

Gill: Job 39:6 - Whose house I have made the wilderness // and the barren land his dwellings

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 subjection by them. Such were the deserts of Arabia; where, as Xenophon ⁿ relates, were many of these creatures, and which he represents as very swift: and Leo Africanus ^o says, great numbers of them are found in deserts, and on the borders of deserts; hence said to be used to the wilderness Jer 2:24;

and the barren land his dwellings; not entirely barren, for then it could not live there; but comparatively, with respect to land that is fruitful: or "salt land" ^p; for, as Pliny ^q says, every place where salt is, is barren.