Job 30:29
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I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
In other translations
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
Hebrew words
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- Micah 1:8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.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.
- Psalm 102:6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
- Job 17:14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
- Psalm 44:19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
- Malachi 1:3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
- Isaiah 13:21-2221 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. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.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. 22 Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.
- Isaiah 38:14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.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.”
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