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the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Job 39:8
He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
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Christian Standard Bible®
It roams the mountains for its pastureland,searching for anything green.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
Contemporary English Version
Instead, they roam the hills, searching for pastureland.
Instead, they roam the hills, searching for pastureland.
Complete Jewish Bible
It ranges over the hills for its pasture, searching for anything green.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
King James Version (1611)
The range of the mountaines is his pasture, and hee searcheth after euery greene thing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
"He explores the mountains for his pasture And searches after every green thing.
Contextual Overview
1 Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young? 2 Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you? 3 They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body. 4 Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again. 5 Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast? 6 To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place. 7 He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears; 8 He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing. 9 Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store? 10 Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?
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, making everything he did go well.
And his master saw that the Lord was with him, making everything he did go well.
Genesis 39:8
But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control;
But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control;
Genesis 39:13
And when she saw that he had got away, letting her keep his coat,
And when she saw that he had got away, letting her keep his coat,
Genesis 39:16
And she kept his coat by her, till his master came back.
And she kept his coat by her, till his master came back.
Genesis 39:18
And when I gave a loud cry he went running out without his coat.
And when I gave a loud cry he went running out without his coat.
Genesis 39:19
And hearing his wife's account of what his servant had done, he became very angry.
And hearing his wife's account of what his servant had done, he became very angry.
Genesis 39:20
And Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's prisoners were kept in chains, and he was there in the prison-house.
And Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's prisoners were kept in chains, and he was there in the prison-house.
Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.
My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.
Proverbs 2:10
For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;
For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;
Proverbs 6:29
So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.
So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.
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.
