Job 30:29
I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
In Context
28I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.
30My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.
Cross References
Job 17:14If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.
Psalms 102:6Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.
Isaiah 13:21But wild beasts shall rest there, and their houses shall be filled with serpents, and ostriches shall dwell there, and the hairy ones shall dance there:
Micah 1:8Therefore will I lament and howl: I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing 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 →