God’s Word Translation
Job 39:8
8It explores the mountains for its pasture and looks for anything green.
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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searches after every green thing.
Context of Job 39:8
6I gave it the desert to live in and the salt flats as its dwelling place. 7It laughs at the noise of the city and doesn’t ⌞even⌟ listen to the shouting of its master. It explores the mountains for its pasture and looks for anything green. 9“Will the wild ox agree to serve you, or will it stay at night beside your feeding trough? 10Can you guide a wild ox in a furrow, or will it plow the valleys behind you?
Read all of Job 39Job 39:8 word by word
יְת֣וּר הָרִ֣ים מִרְעֵ֑הוּ וְאַחַ֖ר כָּל־יָר֣וֹק יִדְרֽוֹשׁ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 39:8
- Job 40:15“Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you. It eats grass as cattle do.
- Genesis 1:29God said, “I have given you every plant with seeds on the face of the earth and every tree that has fruit with seeds. This will be your food.
- Psalms 104:27All of them look to you to give them their food at the right time.
- Psalms 145:15The eyes of all creatures look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time.
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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