Job 30:29
27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
- KJV
- I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
- WEB
- I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
- ASV
- I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
- DARBY
- I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
- BLB
- I have become a brother to jackals, and a companion to the daughters of the ostrich.
- ÅB
- Jeg er blitt en bror av sjakaler og en stallbror av strutser.
- OTB
- Jeg har blitt lik sjakaler,
og en følgesvenn til strutser. - B1930
- Jeg er blitt en bror av sjakaler og en stallbror av strutser.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
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.
Read in contextPsalms 102:6
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Read in contextMalachi 1:3
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
Read in contextJob 17:14
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Read in contextPsalms 44:19
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Read in contextIsaiah 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.
Read in contextIsaiah 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.
Read in context