Job 39:8

8 It explores [the] mountains [as] its pasture and searches after every kind of green plant.

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] which I have given [the] wilderness [as] its house and [the] salt flat [as] its dwelling place?

7 It scorns [the] city's turmoil; it does not hear [the] driver's shouts.

8 It explores [the] mountains [as] its pasture and searches after every kind of green plant.

9 "Is [the] wild ox willing to serve you, or will he spend the night at your feeding trough?

10 Can you tie [the] wild ox [with] its rope to a furrow, or will it harrow [the] valleys after you?