The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

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

The range of mountains is his pasture, And after every green thing he seeketh.

He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.

He looks around the mountains of his pasture, and he searches everywhere for green plants.

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.

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.

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, 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 Job 6:5; and which is observed by naturalists (x).
(x) Oppiani Cyneget. l. 3.

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

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