Job 30:29 · KJV
“I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. {owls: or, ostriches}”
— Job 30:29
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, {and} I cried in the congregation.
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Job 30 — Context
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, {and} I cried in the congregation.
29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. {owls: or, ostriches}
30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
31My harp also is {turned} to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
Cross References
Micah 1:8
Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. {owls: Heb. daughters of the owl}
Psalms 102:6
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Malachi 1:3
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
Job 17:14
I have said to corruption, Thou {art} my father: to the worm, {Thou art} my mother, and my sister. {said: Heb. cried, or, called}
Psalms 44:19
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Isaiah 38:14
Like a crane {or} a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail {with looking} upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. {undertake...: or, ease me}
Isaiah 13:21-22
But 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. {wild...: Heb. Ziim} {doleful...: Heb. Ochim} {owls: or, ostriches: Heb. daughters of the owl}