Job 39:8
Good News Translation
The mountains are the pastures where they feed, where they search for anything green to eat.

New Revised Standard Version
It ranges the mountains as its pasture, and it searches after every green thing.

Contemporary English Version
Instead, they roam the hills, searching for pastureland.

New American Bible
He ranges the mountains for pasture, and seeks out every patch of green.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing.

Job 40:15,20-22 Behold behemoth whom I made with thee, he eateth grass like an ox. . . .

Genesis 1:29,30 And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat: . . .

Psalm 104:27,28 All expect of thee that thou give them food in season. . . .

Psalm 145:15,16 The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and thou givest them meat in due season. . . .

Context
God Speaks of His Creation
7He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of the driver. 8He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing.9Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib?…
Cross References
Leviticus 11:35
And upon whatsoever thing any of these dead beasts shall fall, it shall be unclean. Whether it be oven, or pots with feet, they shall be destroyed, and shall be unclean.

Job 39:7
He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of the driver.

Job 39:9
Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib?

Job 39:7
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