Job 30:29
I am a brother to the dragons, and a companion to the ostriches.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
In Context
28I went mourning without sunne: I stood vp in the congregation and cryed.
30My skinne is blacke vpon me, and my bones are burnt with heate.
Cross References
Job 17:14I shall say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister.
Psalms 102:6I am like a pelicane of the wildernesse: I am like an owle of the deserts.
Isaiah 13:21But Ziim shall lodge there, and their houses shall be ful of Ohim: Ostriches shall dwel there, and the Satyrs shall dance there.
Micah 1:8Therefore I will mourne and howle: I wil goe without clothes, and naked: I will make lamentation like the dragons, and mourning as 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 →