Job 30:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁹ I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ I am a brother to dragons, And a companion to owls.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ I am a brother to jackals [which howl], and a companion to ostriches [which scream dismally].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

Common English Bible

²⁹ I have become a brother to jackals, a companion to young ostriches.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ I was the brother of snakes, and the companion of ostriches.

Job 30:29 Cross References

Micah 1:8

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.

Psalm 102:6

I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like a little owl of the waste places.

Malachi 1:3

but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals.

Psalm 44:19

yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals and covered us with deep darkness.

Job 17:14

if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’

Isaiah 38:14

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!

Isaiah 34:13

Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.

Psalm 102:7

I lie awake; I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.