Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
but seek their pasture about the mountains and follow the green grass.
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
It explores [the] mountains [as] its pasture and searches after every kind of green plant.
Modern King James verseion
He seeks out mountains for his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
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 That they may give no force for the multitude of people in the cities, neither regard the crying of the driver, 8 but seek their pasture about the mountains and follow the green grass. 9 Will the unicorn be so tame as to do the service, or to abide still by thy crib?
Names
Cross References
Genesis 1:29-30
And God said, "See, I have given you all herbs that sow seed which are on all the earth, and all manner trees that have fruit in them and sow seed; to be meat for you,
Job 40:15
"Behold Behemoth, whom I made with thee, which eateth hay as an ox:
Job 40:20-22
that the mountains should give him grass, where all the beasts of the field take their pastime.
Psalm 104:27-28
These wait all upon thee, that thou mayest give them meat in due season.
Psalm 145:15-16
The eyes of all wait upon thee, O LORD; and thou givest them their meat in due season.