Job 30:29
I was the brother of snakes, and the companion of ostriches.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
In Context
28I went forth mourning, without anger, and rising up, I cried out in confusion.
30My skin has become blackened over me, and my bones have dried up because of the heat.
Cross References
Job 17:14I have said to decay and to worms: “You are my father, my mother, and my sister.”
Psalms 102:6The Lord accomplishes mercies, and his judgment is for all who patiently endure injuries.
Isaiah 13:21Instead, the wild beasts will rest there, and their houses will be filled with serpents, and ostriches will live there, and the hairy ones will leap about there.
Micah 1:8I will lament and wail about this. I will go out despoiled and naked. I will make a howl like the dragons, and a mourning 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 →