John Gill Commentary Job 39:8

"The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing." — Job 39:8 (ASV)

The range of the mountains [is] his pasture
It ranges about the mountains for food; it looks about for it, as the word signifies, and tries first one place and then another to get some, having short commons there;

and he searches after every green thing ;
herb or plant, whatever it is that is green, it seeks after; and which being scarce in deserts and mountains, it searches about for and feeds upon it, wherever it can find it; grass being the peculiar food of these creatures, see (Job 6:5) ; and which is observed by naturalists ^F24 .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F24: Oppiani Cyneget. l. 3.