Job 39:8

8 He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.

Job 39:8 Meaning and Commentary

Job 39:8

The range of the mountains [is] his pasture
It ranges about the mountains for food; it looks about for it, as the word signifies, and tries first one place and then another to get some, it having short commons there;

and he searcheth after every green thing;
herb or plant, be it what it will that is green, it seeks after; and which being scarce in deserts and mountains, it searches about for and feeds upon it, wherever it can find it; grass being the peculiar food of these creatures, see ( Job 6:5 ) ; and which is observed by naturalists ^F24.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Oppiani Cyneget. l. 3.

Job 39:8 In-Context

6 To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

7 He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;

8 He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.

9 Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?

10 Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?