Job 30:29
I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
In Context
28I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.
30My skin is become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
Cross References
Job 17:14I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
Psalms 102:6I am become like the pelican of the wilderness, I am as an owl in desolate places;
Isaiah 13:21But beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.
Micah 1:8For this will I lament, and I will howl; I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and 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 →