Job 30:29

I am a brother to jackals, 1 a companion of ostriches. 1

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In The King James Version

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

In Context

28I have gone about like one who was living in the dark, 1 but not because of the sun; 1 I stand up in the assembly and cry for help. 1

30My skin is black and falls away from me; 1 my bones are burned with heat. 1

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Cross References

Job 17:14and if I have said to the pit, 'You are my father,' 1 and to the worm, 'You are my mother or my sister,' 1

Psalms 102:6I am like a pelican of the wilderness; 1 I have become like an owl in the ruins. 1

Isaiah 13:21But wild animals of the desert will lie there. Their houses will be full of owls; 1 and ostriches and wild goats will skip about there. 1

Micah 1:8For this reason I will lament and wail; 1 I will go barefoot and naked; 1 I will wail like the jackals 1 and mourn like owls. 1

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 →

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