Revised Literal Translation
Job 39:8
8The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth 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.
- 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
6Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. 7He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. 9Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? 10Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Read all of Job 39Job 39:8 word by word
יְת֣וּר הָרִ֣ים מִרְעֵ֑הוּ וְאַחַ֖ר כָּל־יָר֣וֹק יִדְרֽוֹשׁ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 39:8
- Job 40:15Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
- Genesis 1:29And 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.
- Psalms 104:27These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
- Psalms 145:15The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat 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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