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Legacy Standard Bible
Job 39:8
He explores the mountains for his pastureAnd searches after 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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
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.
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"Do you know the time the mountain goats give birth?Do you keep watch over the calving of the deer? 2Can you count the months they fulfill,Or do you know the time they give birth? 3They kneel down; they bring forth their young;They send out their labor pains. 4Their children become strong; they grow up in the open field;They leave and do not return to them. 5"Who sent out the wild donkey free?And who loosed the bonds of the swift donkey, 6For whom I have set the desert plain as a homeAnd the salt land as his dwelling place? 7He laughs at the tumult of the city;The shoutings of the driver he does not hear. 8He explores the mountains for his pastureAnd searches after every green thing. 9Will the wild ox consent to serve you,Or will he spend the night at your manger? 10Can you bind the wild ox in a furrow with ropes,Or will he harrow 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
Now his master saw that Yahweh was with him and how Yahweh caused all that he did to succeed in his hand.
Now his master saw that Yahweh was with him and how Yahweh caused all that he did to succeed in his hand.
Genesis 39:8
But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in the house, and he has given all that he owns into my hand.
But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in the house, and he has given all that he owns into my hand.
Genesis 39:13
Now it happened, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside,
Now it happened, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside,
Genesis 39:16
And she placed his garment beside her until his master came home.
And she placed his garment beside her until his master came home.
Genesis 39:18
and as I raised my voice and screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled outside."
and as I raised my voice and screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled outside."
Genesis 39:19
Now it happened that when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your slave did to me," his anger burned.
Now it happened that when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your slave did to me," his anger burned.
Genesis 39:20
So Joseph's master took him and put him into the jail, the place where the king's prisoners were confined; and he was there in the jail.
So Joseph's master took him and put him into the jail, the place where the king's prisoners were confined; and he was there in the jail.
Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners entice you,Do not be willing.
My son, if sinners entice you,Do not be willing.
Proverbs 2:10
For wisdom will enter your heartAnd knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
For wisdom will enter your heartAnd knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
Proverbs 6:29
So is the one who goes in to his neighbor's wife;Whoever touches her will not go unpunished.
So is the one who goes in to his neighbor's wife;Whoever touches her will 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.
