John Gill's Exposition on Job 39:6

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Whose house I have made the wilderness, etc.] 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 f1354 relates, were many of these creatures, and which he represents as very swift: and Leo Africanus f1355 says, great numbers of them are found in deserts, and on the borders of deserts; hence said to be used to the wilderness (<240224>Jeremiah 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” f1356; for, as Pliny f1357 says, every place where salt is, is barren.

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