Job 30:29
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
King James Version
In Context
28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Cross References
Job 17:14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Psalms 102:6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Isaiah 13:21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Micah 1:8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
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 →