John Trapp on Job 39:6

Verſe 6. Whoſe houſe I have made the wilderneſs] That of Arabia eſpecially near unto Job. where were whole droves of theſe wild Aſſes. There are a ſort of them alſo in Plara, one of the Ilands of the Egean ſea. Hermites and Anchorites ſeem to affect the ſame liberty: but where did God ever grant it them? Man is [non-Latin text not transcribed] ſaith Ariſtotle, Natures good-fellow, as One engliſheth him: and no ſooner had the Philippians received the Goſpel, but they were in fellowſhip to a day, Phil. 1.5. The Communion of Saints is as well a point of Chriſtian practiſe, [illegible: 1 letter]an Article of Chriſtian belief: and they have much to anſwer for, who ſty up themſelves, and forſake the aſſembling of our ſelves together, as the manner of ſome is, Heb. 10. theſe are in the ready way to utter Apoſtacy, Ibid. He is not like to walk long, who affecteth to walk alone. Two are better than one; and why, ſee Eccleſ. 4.9, 11, 12. with the Notes.

And the barren land his dwelling] Heb. The ſalt place, that is, barren as if it had been ſowed with ſalt, Judg. 9.45. Pſal. 107.33, 34. Salt is taken in Scripture to be both a cauſe and ſigne of barrenneſſe, Deut. 20.23. Zeph. 2.9. though amongſt us there are ſome kind of ſoyles, they ſay, that are manured with ſalt, and thereby made fruitful: but in thoſe hot and dry Countries it was otherwiſe. In theſe barren places, God provideth for the wild-Aſſe: and although he hath there but mean food, yet he is luſty and nimble, and ſaveth himſelf both from the Hunter, and from the ravage of other fierce and ſavage creatures, by his ſtrength and ſwiftneſſe. Xenophon telleth us, That Cyrus paſſing through the wilderneſſe of Arabia, with his Horſe-men, there were many of theſe wild-Aſſes: who, being ſtirred, ran ſo ſwiftly away, that ſome horſe-men following could not come neer them; then ſtanding ſtill:Cyropad. lib. 3. but when the horſe-men approached, they fell again a running as before, thus deluding them. Haec igitur beſtia non mediocre mirabilis Dei potentiae veſtigium eſt. ſaith Brentius. In this beaſt therefore there is much of Gods great power and providence to be ſeen. And from hence alſo we may gather, ſaith another Interpreter, that a little is enough to ſuſtain men in the wilderneſſe of this world: As the Children of Iſrael alſo were here ſuſtained, having nothing to eate but what God ſent them down from heaven from day to day, forty years together. Nature is content with a little, grace with leſſe.