Job 30:29
New International Version
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of owls.

New Living Translation
Instead, I am considered a brother to jackals and a companion to owls.

English Standard Version
I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.

Berean Standard Bible
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

King James Bible
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

New King James Version
I am a brother of jackals, And a companion of ostriches.

New American Standard Bible
“I have become a brother to jackals, And a companion of ostriches.

NASB 1995
“I have become a brother to jackals And a companion of ostriches.

NASB 1977
“I have become a brother to jackals, And a companion of ostriches.

Legacy Standard Bible
I have become a brother to jackals And a companion of ostriches.

Amplified Bible
“I am a brother to [howling] jackals, And a companion to ostriches [which scream dismally].

Christian Standard Bible
I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

American Standard Version
I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I have been a brother to jackals, and a friend to the daughters of ostriches

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.

Contemporary English Version
making mournful sounds like jackals and owls.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.

English Revised Version
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I'm a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

Good News Translation
My voice is as sad and lonely as the cries of a jackal or an ostrich.

International Standard Version
I've become a brother to jackals, and a friend to ostriches.

JPS Tanakh 1917
I am become a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

Literal Standard Version
I have been a brother to dragons, | And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.

Majority Standard Bible
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

New American Bible
I have become a brother to jackals, a companion to ostriches.

NET Bible
I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

New Revised Standard Version
I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches.

New Heart English Bible
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

Webster's Bible Translation
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

World English Bible
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

Young's Literal Translation
A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Job's Prosperity Becomes Calamity
28I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help. 29I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches. 30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.…

Cross References
Psalm 44:19
But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.

Isaiah 13:21
But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.

Isaiah 34:13
Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.

Isaiah 38:14
I 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 1:8
Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.


Treasury of Scripture

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

a brother

Job 17:14
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

Psalm 102:6
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

Isaiah 13:21,22
But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there…

owls.

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Job 30
1. Job's honor is turned into extreme contempt
15. and his prosperity into calamity














(29) Dragons and owls are, according to some moderns, jackals and ostriches.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I have become
הָיִ֣יתִי (hā·yî·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

a brother
אָ֭ח (’āḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 251: A brother, )

to jackals,
לְתַנִּ֑ים (lə·ṯan·nîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural
Strong's 8577: A marine, land monster, sea-serpent, jackal

and a companion
וְ֝רֵ֗עַ (wə·rê·a‘)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7453: Friend, companion, fellow

of ostriches.
לִבְנ֥וֹת (liḇ·nō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 1323: A daughter


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