Job 39:8

8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after 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 Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?

7 He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver;

8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

9 Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?

10 Canst thou bind the buffalo with his cord in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?