Job 30:29 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Job 30:29 Cross References

Job 17:14

If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;

Psalm 102:6

I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.

Psalm 102:7

I watch, and am become Like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.

Psalm 44:19

That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

Isaiah 34:13

And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward; O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

Micah 1:8

For this will I wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a mourning like the ostriches.

Malachi 1:3

but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.