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JPS Old Testament

Job 39:8

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ass, the Wild;   Beasts;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ass;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Arabia;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ass;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Knowledge;   Nature;   World;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Ass;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Color;   Range;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Color;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
It roams the mountains for its pastureland,searching for anything green.
Hebrew Names Version
The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.
King James Version
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
English Standard Version
He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
New Century Version
It roams the hills looking for pasture, looking for anything green to eat.
New English Translation
It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.
Amplified Bible
"He explores the mountains as his pasture And searches after every green thing.
New American Standard Bible
"He explores the mountains of his pasture, And searches after every green thing.
World English Bible
The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing.
Legacy Standard Bible
He explores the mountains for his pastureAnd searches after every green thing.
Berean Standard Bible
He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
Contemporary English Version
Instead, they roam the hills, searching for pastureland.
Complete Jewish Bible
It ranges over the hills for its pasture, searching for anything green.
Darby Translation
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Easy-to-Read Version
They live in the mountains. That is their pasture. That is where they look for food to eat.
George Lamsa Translation
The tops of mountains are his pasture, and he treads over every green thing.
Good News Translation
The mountains are the pastures where they feed, where they search for anything green to eat.
Lexham English Bible
It explores the mountains as its pasture and searches after every kind of green plant.
Literal Translation
he seeks out mountains for his pasture; and he searches after every green thing.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but to seke their pasture aboute the moutaynes, & to folowe vpon the grene grasse.
American Standard Version
The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.
Bible in Basic English
He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
King James Version (1611)
The range of the mountaines is his pasture, and hee searcheth after euery greene thing.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But seeke their pasture about the mountaines, and folowe the greene grasse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He will survey the mountains as his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.
English Revised Version
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He lokith aboute the hillis of his lesewe, and he sekith alle greene thingis.
Update Bible Version
The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searches after every green thing.
Webster's Bible Translation
The range of the mountains [is] his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
New King James Version
The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searches after every green thing.
New Living Translation
The mountains are its pastureland, where it searches for every blade of grass.
New Life Bible
He goes looking for grass to eat on the mountains. He looks for every green thing.
New Revised Standard
It ranges the mountains as its pasture, and it searches after every green thing.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He espieth the mountains, his pasture-ground, and, after every green thing, maketh search.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing,
Revised Standard Version
He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
Young's Literal Translation
The range of mountains [is] his pasture, And after every green thing he seeketh.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He explores the mountains for his pasture And searches after every green thing.

Contextual Overview

1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? 2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? 3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, they cast out their fruit. 4 Their young ones wax strong, they grow up in the open field; they go forth, and return not again. 5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? 6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place. 7 He scorneth the tumult of the city, neither heareth he the shoutings of the driver. 8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. 9 Will the wild-ox be willing to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib? 10 Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 40:15, Job 40:20-22, Genesis 1:29, Genesis 1:30, Psalms 104:27, Psalms 104:28, Psalms 145:15, Psalms 145:16

Cross-References

Genesis 39:3
And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
Genesis 39:8
But he refused, and said unto his master's wife: 'Behold, my master, having me, knoweth not what is in the house, and he hath put all that he hath into my hand;
Genesis 39:13
And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
Genesis 39:16
And she laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
Genesis 39:18
And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and fled out.'
Genesis 39:19
And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke unto him, saying: 'After this manner did thy servant to me'; that his wrath was kindled.
Genesis 39:20
And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound; and he was there in the prison.
Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Proverbs 2:10
For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;
Proverbs 6:29
So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not go unpunished.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The range of the mountains [is] his pasture,.... It ranges about the mountains for food; it looks about for it, as the word signifies, and tries first one place and then another to get some, it having short commons there;

and he searcheth after every green thing; herb or plant, be it what it will that is green, it seeks after; and which being scarce in deserts and mountains, it searches about for and feeds upon it, wherever it can find it; grass being the peculiar food of these creatures, see Job 6:5; and which is observed by naturalists x.

x Oppiani Cyneget. l. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 39:8. 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.


 
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