Job 39:6
To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- cui dedi in solitudine domum, et tabernacula ejus in terra salsuginis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐθέμην δὲ τὴν δίαιταν αὐτοῦ ἔρημον, καὶ τὰ σκηνώματα αὐτοῦ ἁλμυρίδα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֲשֶׁר שַׂ֣מְתִּי עֲרָבָ֣ה בֵית֑וֹ וּֽמִשְׁכְּנוֹתָ֥יו מְלֵֽחָה
Haydock's commentary
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.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part III. Containing Conferences XVIII.-XXIV, Chapter VI. Of the system of the Anchorites and its beginning
Out of this number of the perfect, and, if I may use the expression, this most fruitful root of saints, were produced afterwards the flowers and fruits of the anchorites as well. And of this order we have heard that the originators were those whom we mentioned just now; viz., Saint Paul and Antony, men who frequented the recesses of the desert, not as some from faintheartedness, and the evil of impatience, but from a desire for loftier heights of perfection and divine contemplation, although the former of them is said to have found his way to the desert by reason of necessity, while during the time of persecution he was avoiding the plots of his neighbours. …