Job 30:29
I am a brother to [howling] monsters, and a companion to ostriches.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
In Context
28I walk about mournfully without sunlight: when I rise up, in the assembly, I cry with pain.
30My skin hangeth down black from me, and my bones are burnt from heat.
Cross References
Job 17:14When I call to corruption, Thou art my father: Thou art my mother, and my sister, to the worms.
Psalms 102:6(102:7) I am like the pelican of the wilderness: I am become like the owl amid ruins.
Isaiah 13:21But there shall rest the wild beasts of the desert; and their houses shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and evil spirits shall dance there.
Micah 1:8For this will I lament and wail; I will go confused and naked: I will make a lament like the crocodiles, 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 →