Job 30:29
I have been a brother to dragons, || And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
In Context
28I have gone mourning without the sun, || I have risen, I cry in an assembly.
30My skin has been black on me, || And my bone has burned from heat,
Cross References
Job 17:14To corruption I have called: You [are] my father. To the worm: My mother and my sister.
Psalms 102:6I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, || I have been as an owl of the dry places.
Isaiah 13:21And desert-dwellers have lain down there, || And their houses have been full of howlers, || And daughters of an ostrich have dwelt there, || And goats skip there.
Micah 1:8For this I lament and howl, || I go spoiled and naked, || I make a lamentation like dragons, || And a mourning like daughters of an ostrich.
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 →