Iyov 39:8

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

Iyov 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.

Iyov 39:8 In-Context

6 Whose bais I have made the aravah, and the barren land his mishkenot (dwellings)?

7 He laughs at the tumult of the kiryah (city), neither regardeth he the shouts of the driver.

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

9 Will the wild ox be willing to be thy eved, or stay the night by thy evus (animal feeding trough)?

10 Canst thou bind the wild ox to the furrow with a rope, or will it behind thee till the amakim (valleys)?