Job 30:29
I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
In Context
28I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.
30My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
Cross References
Job 17:14If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
Psalms 102:6\102:5\Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.
Isaiah 13:21But the beasts of the waste land will have their holes there; and the houses will be full of crying jackals, and ostriches will have their place there, and evil spirits will be dancing there.
Micah 1:8For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.
Matthew Henry on Job 30:16-31
Job Complains of His Affliction. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry unto thee,… Read the whole commentary →