Job 30:29
My wailing sounds as sad as [MET] the cries of jackals/foxes and ostriches.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
In Context
28I go about very discouraged; I stand up and plead for people to help me.
Cross References
Job 17:14I may say to the grave, ‘You will be like a father to me,’ and say to the maggots that will eat my body, ‘You will be like a mother or younger sisters to me because you will be where I will always be.’
Psalms 102:6I am like a lonely and despised vulture in the desert, like an owl by itself in the abandoned ruins of a building/city.
Isaiah 13:21Instead, animals that live in the desert will be there; jackals/wolves will live in the ruins of the houses. Owls (OR, Ostriches) will live in the ruins, and wild goats will romp/jump around there.
Micah 1:8Because Samaria will be destroyed, I will weep and wail. I will walk around ◄barefoot/without any sandals on my feet► and naked. I will howl like a jackal/wolf and screech like an owl,
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 →