Job 39:8

8 It ranges over the hills for its pasture, searching for anything green.

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.


FOOTNOTES:

F24 Oppiani Cyneget. l. 3.

Job 39:8 In-Context

6 I made the 'Aravah its home, the salty desert its place to live.
7 It scorns the noise of the city and hears no driver's shouts.
8 It ranges over the hills for its pasture, searching for anything green.
9 "Would a wild ox be willing to serve you? Would it stay by your stall?
10 Could you tie a rope around its neck and make it plow furrows for you?
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