Job 39:8
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
American King James Version (AKJV)
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
American Standard Version (ASV)
The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
Webster's Revision
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
World English Bible
The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.
English Revised Version (ERV)
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Clarke's Job 39:8 Bible Commentary
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.
Barnes's Job 39:8 Bible Commentary
The 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 Petersburg," for the year 1777.
Wesley's Job 39:8 Bible Commentary
39:8 Mountains - He prefers that mean provision with his freedom, before the fattest pastures with servitude.
