Devine Scripture

Job 30:29

Job chapter 30 · verse 29 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.28I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

v.29This passage

v.30My skin is black, and fallethfrom me, And my bones are burned with heat.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 102:6

    I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.

  • Malachi 1:3

    but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

  • Isaiah 13:21

    But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.

  • Psalms 44:19

    That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

  • Isaiah 38:14

    Like a swallowora crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

  • Job 17:14

    If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou artmy mother, and my sister;