Job 39 · Verse 8

Job 39:8

The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Job 39:8, King James Version

Job 39:8 in other translations

BSBHe roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
WEBThe range of the mountains is his pasture. He searches after every green thing.
ASVThe range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.
YLTThe range of mountains is his pasture, And after every green thing he seeketh.
DARBYThe range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
BBEHe goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
WebsterThe range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

What does Job 39:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
8. The range--literally, "searching," "that which it finds by searching is his pasture."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 8 The range of the mountains - The mountains and desert places are his peculiar places of pasture; and he lives on any thing that is green, or any kind of vegetable production.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Job 39:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יְת֣וּרye.Turit exploresH8446
הָרִ֣יםha.RimmountainsH2022
מִרְעֵ֑הוּmir.'E.hupasture itsH4829
וְאַחַ֖רve.'a.Charand afterH310
כָּל\־kol-everyH3605
יָר֣וֹקya.Rokgreen plantH3387
יִדְרֽוֹשׁ\׃yid.Ro.oshit searchesH1875

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 39:8

  • Psalms 104:27-28

    These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season. That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.

  • Psalms 145:15-16

    The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

  • Job 40:20-22

    Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

  • Job 40:15

    Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

  • Genesis 1:29-30

    And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
40:15,20-22; Ge 1:29,30; Ps 104:27,28; 145:15,16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 39:7

    He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.

  • Job 39:8

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

  • Job 39:9

    Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

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Job 39:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		¿Quién echó libre al asno montés, y quién soltó sus ataduras?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Il parcourt les montagnes pour trouver sa pâture, et il est en quête de tout ce qui est vert.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Was er auf den Bergen erspäht, ist seine Weide, und allem Grünen spürt er nach.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Circumspicit montes pascuæ suæ, et virentia quæque perquirit.