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Verse	Translation	Text
Job 39:8	Hebrew Names	The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.
	King James	The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
The range--literally, "searching," "that which it finds by searching is his pasture."

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

The range--literally, "searching," "that which it finds by searching is his pasture."

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
The range of the mountains is his pasture - The word rendered "range" יתור yâthûr, means properly a "searching out," and then that which is obtained by search. The word "range" expresses the idea with sufficient exactness. The usual range of the wild ass is the mountains. Pallas, who has given a full description of the habits of the Onager, or wild ass, states, that it, especially loves desolate hills as its abode. "Acts of the Society of Sciences of Petersburg," for the year 1777.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

The range of the mountains is his pasture - The word rendered "range" יתור yâthûr, means properly a "searching out," and then that which is obtained by search. The word "range" expresses the idea with sufficient exactness. The usual range of the wild ass is the mountains. Pallas, who has given a full description of the habits of the Onager, or wild ass, states, that it, especially loves desolate hills as its abode. "Acts of the Society of Sciences of Petersburg," for the year 1777.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Mountains - He prefers that mean provision with his freedom, before the fattest pastures with servitude.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Mountains - He prefers that mean provision with his freedom, before the fattest pastures with servitude.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
The range of the mountains - The mountains and desert places are his peculiar places of pasture; and he lives on any thing that is green, or any kind of vegetable production.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

The range of the mountains - The mountains and desert places are his peculiar places of pasture; and he lives on any thing that is green, or any kind of vegetable production.

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