Job 30:29
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
World English Bible Catholic
In The King James Version
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
In Context
28I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
30My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
Cross References
Job 17:14if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
Psalms 102:6I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.
Isaiah 13:21But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.
Micah 1:8For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will howl like the jackals and mourn 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 →