I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.
I am a brother to dragons, And a companion to owls.
I am a brother to jackals [which howl], and a companion to ostriches [which scream dismally].
I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
I have become a brother to jackals, a companion to young ostriches.
I was the brother of snakes, and the companion of ostriches.
I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.
if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like a little owl of the waste places.
I lie awake; I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.
yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals and covered us with deep darkness.
Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.
Like a swallow or a crane I clamor; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security!
For this I will lament and wail; I will go barefoot and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals and mourning like the ostriches.
but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals.