Job 30:29

English Standard Version 2016

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

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For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.

I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;

but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”

yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.

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

Like a swallow or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!

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

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