Job 39:8
\39:5\Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
In Context
9\39:6\To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.
Cross References
Genesis 1:29And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:
Job 40:15\40:20\He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play.
Psalms 104:27All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time.
Matthew Henry on Job 39:2-13
Man's Ignorance of the Animal Creation; Description of the Wild Goat, Hind, Wild Ass, and Unicorn. ( b. c. 1520.) 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 ones, they cast out their sorrows. 4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. 5… Read the whole commentary →