Job 39:8

8 It ranges the hills for its pasture and searches for any green thing.

Job 39:8 in Other Translations

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

8 He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

8 The mountains are its pastureland, where it searches for every blade of grass.

8 He grazes freely through the hills, nibbling anything that's green.

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

8 It explores the mountains for its pasture and looks for anything green.

8 It roams the mountains for its pastureland, searching for anything green.

8 They wander over the hills to look for grass. They search for anything green to eat.

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 I gave it the wasteland as its home, the salt flats as its habitat.

7 It laughs at the commotion in the town; it does not hear a driver’s shout.

8 It ranges the hills for its pasture and searches for any green thing.

9 “Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will it stay by your manger at night?

10 Can you hold it to the furrow with a harness? Will it till the valleys behind you?

Cross References

• 1. Isaiah 32:20