Job 30:29
I am become a brother of monsters, 1 And a companion of ostriches. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
In Context
28I went mourning without restraint: 1 And I have stood and cried out in the assembly. 1
30And my skin has been greatly blackened, 1 And my bones are burned with heat. 1
Cross References
Job 17:14I have called upon death to be my father, 1 And corruption to be my mother and sister. 1
Psalms 102:6The Lord executes mercy 1 And judgment for all that are injured. 1
Isaiah 13:21But wild beasts shall rest there; and the houses shall be filled with howling; and monsters shall rest there, and devils shall dance there,
Micah 1:8Therefore shall she lament and wail, she shall go barefooted, and being naked she shall make lamentation as that of serpents, and mourning as of the daughters of sirens.
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 →