Job 39:8 “He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.”

Job 39:8

He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse?

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

The range of mountains [is] his pasture, And after every green thing he seeketh.

Bible in Basic English

He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.

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Cross references

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

Job 40:15 Job 40:20–22 Genesis 1:29 Genesis 1:30 Psalm 104:27 Psalm 104:28

Job 40:15 · BSB

Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you. He feeds on grass like an ox.

Job 40:20–22 · BSB

The hills yield him their produce, while all the beasts of the field play nearby.

Genesis 1:29 · BSB

Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.

Genesis 1:30 · BSB

And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Psalm 104:27 · BSB

All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.

Psalm 104:28 · BSB

When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.

9Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?

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