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John Gill's Exposition on Job 39:8

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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The range of the mountains [is] his pasture, etc.] 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, it having short commons there; and he searcheth after every green thing; herb or plant, be it what it will 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 <180605>Job 6:5); and which is observed by naturalists f1363.
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