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Bishop's Bible

Job 39:8

But seeke their pasture about the mountaines, and folowe the greene grasse.

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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
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 whe the wylde goates bring foorth their young among the stonye rockes? or layest thou wayte when the hindes vse to calue? 2 Canst thou number the monethes that they go with young? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth? 3 They lye downe, they calue their young ones, and they are deliuered of their trauaile and paine: 4 Yet their young ones grow vp, and waxe fatte through good feeding with corne: They go foorth, and returne not againe vnto them. 5 Who letteth the wylde asse to go free? or who looseth the bondes of the wylde mule? 6 Euen I which haue geuen the wyldernesse to be their house, and the vntilled land to be their dwelling. 7 They force not for the multitude of people in the citie, neither regarde the crying of the driuer: 8 But seeke their pasture about the mountaines, and folowe the greene grasse. 9 Wyll the vnicorne do thee seruice, or abide still by thy cribbe? 10 Canst thou binde the yoke about the vnicorne in the forowe, to make him plowe after thee in the valleyes?

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 maister saw that God was with hym, and that God made all that he dyd to prosper in his hande.
Genesis 39:8
But he refused, and sayde vnto his maisters wyfe: Beholde, my maister woteth not what he hath in the house with me, and hath committed all that he hath to my hande.
Genesis 39:13
And when she sawe that he had lefte his garment in her hande, and was fled out:
Genesis 39:16
And she layed vp his garment by her, vntyll her Lorde came home.
Genesis 39:18
But assoone as I lyft vp my voyce and cryed, he left his garment with me, and fledde out.
Genesis 39:19
When his maister hearde the wordes of his wyfe whiche she tolde hym, saying, after this maner dyd thy seruaunt to me: he waxed wroth.
Genesis 39:20
And Iosephes maister toke hym, and put hym in pryson, euen into the place where the kynges prysoners laye bounde: and there continued he in prison.
Proverbs 1:10
My sonne, if sinners entice thee, consent not vnto them.
Proverbs 2:10
When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and thy soule deliteth in knowledge:
Proverbs 6:29
Euen so, whosoeuer goeth in to his neyghbours wife and toucheth her, can not be vngiltie.

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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