English Standard Version
Job 39:8
8He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
Job 39:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
- New International Version (NIV)It ranges the hills for its pasture and searches for any green thing.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searches after every green thing.
- New Living Translation (NLT)The mountains are its pastureland, where it searches for every blade of grass.
Context of Job 39:8
6to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place? 7He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver. He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing. 9"Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger? 10Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?
Read all of Job 39Job 39:8 word by word
יְת֣וּר הָרִ֣ים מִרְעֵ֑הוּ וְאַחַ֖ר כָּל־יָר֣וֹק יִדְרֽוֹשׁ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 39:8
- Job 40:15"Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox.
- Genesis 1:29And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.
- Psalms 104:27These all look to you, to give them their food in due season.
- Psalms 145:15The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season.
Commentaries on Job 39:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8The 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8The range of the mountains is his pasture - The word rendered “range” יתור yâthûr means properly a “searching out,” and then that which is obtained by search. The word “range” expresses the idea with sufficient exactness. The usual range of the wild ass is the mountains. Pallas, who has given a full description of the habits of the Onager, or wild ass, states, that it, especially loves desolate hills as its abode. “Acts of the Society of Sciences of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-36God challenges Job. Job admits he cannot judge the moral world. God shows Job's ignorance of the natural world's elements related to the realm of heaven, weather, animals, and birds (38:4–21; 22–38; 39–39:30).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. The range--literally, "searching," "that which it finds by searching is his pasture."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 39
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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