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 DomainASVPD
“I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 30:29 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 17:14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
- Psalms 44:19But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
- Psalms 102:6I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
- Psalms 102:7I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- Malachi 1:3but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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