KJV King James Version
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
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Job 30:29
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
WEB World English Bible
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
ASV American Standard Version
I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.
Surrounding context — Job 30
26 When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation.
29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
31 My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
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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.Psalm 102:6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.Psalm 44:19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.Job 17:14I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.Malachi 1:3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.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.Isaiah 13:21-22But 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.
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