Job 30:29

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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 barefoot and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals and mourning like the ostriches.

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

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

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

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 clamor; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security!

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 bird on the housetop.