Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
It explores [the] mountains [as] its pasture and searches after every kind of green plant.
New American Standard Bible
And searches after every green thing.
King James Version
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Holman Bible
searching for anything green.
International Standard Version
He ranges the mountains that are his pasture to search for anything green.
A Conservative Version
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
American Standard Version
The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.
Amplified
“He explores the mountains as his pasture
And searches after every green thing.
Bible in Basic English
He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
Darby Translation
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Julia Smith Translation
The searching out of the mountains his pasture, and he will seek after every green thing.
King James 2000
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
Modern King James verseion
He seeks out mountains for his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
but seek their pasture about the mountains and follow the green grass.
NET Bible
It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.
New Heart English Bible
The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.
The Emphasized Bible
He espieth the mountains, his pasture-ground, and, after every green thing, maketh search.
Webster
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
World English Bible
The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.
Youngs Literal Translation
The range of mountains is his pasture, And after every green thing he seeketh.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 39:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Wild Donkey
7 It scorns [the] city's turmoil; it does not hear [the] driver's shouts. 8 It explores [the] mountains [as] its pasture and searches after every kind of green plant. 9 "Is [the] wild ox willing to serve you, or will he spend the night at your feeding trough?
Names
Cross References
Genesis 1:29-30
And God said, "Look--I am giving to you every plant [that] bears seed which [is] on the face of the whole earth, and every kind of tree {that bears fruit}. They shall be yours as food."
Job 40:15
"Look, Behemoth, which I have made just as [I made] you; it eats grass like the ox.
Job 40:20-22
Yes, [the] mountains yield produce for it, and all {wild animals} play there.
Psalm 104:27-28
They all wait for you to give [them] their food {at the proper time}.
Psalm 145:15-16
[The] eyes of all look hopefully to you, and you give them their food in due time,