Job 30:29
I am a brother to jackals,and a companion to ostriches.
New Heart English Bible
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;'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 moan like the daughters of 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 →