Job 30:29
I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
In Context
28I go mourning without the sun; I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
30My skin is black, and falleth from me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Cross References
Job 17:14If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father', to the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister';
Psalms 102:6(102-7) I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.
Isaiah 13:21But wild-cats shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of ferrets; and ostriches shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Micah 1:8For this will I wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, 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 →