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 vulture of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;
I lie awake, I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.
that thou shouldst have broken us in the place 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 thou my security!
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.
but I have hated Esau; I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”