Job 39:8

They go to the hills to find food; there they search for grass to eat.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

In Context

7They do not like the noise in the cities; in the desert they do not have to listen to the shouts of those who force donkeys to work.

9:Will a wild ox agree to work for you? Will it allow you to keep it penned up at night in the place where you put feed for your animals?

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Cross References

Genesis 1:29God said to the humans, “Listen! I have given you all the plants that produce seeds, all over the earth, and all the trees that have seeds in their fruit. All these things are for you to eat.

Job 40:15“Think also about the huge animals that live near the water. I made you, and I made them also. They eat grass, like oxen do.

Psalms 104:27All of those creatures depend on you to give them the food that they need.

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 →

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