Job 30:29

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.”

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BSBPD

“I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 30:29 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 17:14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
  2. Psalms 44:19But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
  3. Psalms 102:6I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
  4. Psalms 102:7I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.
  5. Isaiah 13:21But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
  6. Isaiah 38:14I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
  7. Micah 1:8Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
  8. Malachi 1:3but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

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