Job 39:8
The range of mountains [is] his pasture, || And he seeks after every green thing.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
In Context
7He laughs at the multitude of a city, || He does not hear the cries of an exactor.
9Is a wild ox willing to serve you? Does he lodge by your crib?
Cross References
Genesis 1:29And God says, “Behold, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which [is] on the face of all the earth, and every tree in which [is] the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food;
Job 40:15Now behold, behemoth, || That I made with you: He eats grass as an ox.
Psalms 104:27All of them look to You, || To give their food in its season.
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 →