Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.

Darby Translation

I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.

Julia Smith Translation

I was a brother to jackals, and a companion to the daughters of the ostrich.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

I am a companion for [the] jackals and a companion for {ostriches}.

Modern King James verseion

I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to daughters of the ostrich.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But now I am a companion of dragons, and a fellow of ostriches.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

A brother, became I to the brutes that howl, and a companion to the birds that screech:

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I am a brother
אח 
'ach 
Usage: 629

to dragons
תּנּים תּנּין 
Tanniyn 
Usage: 23

and a companion
ריע רע 
Rea` 
Usage: 187

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Job Says: I Am Being Punished By God

28 I go about mourning without comfort. I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help. 29 “I have become a brother to jackals
And a companion of ostriches.
30 My skin grows black on me and my bones burn with fever.



Cross References

Micah 1:8

I [Micah] will lament and wail. I will go barefoot and naked. I will make a howling like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.

Psalm 102:6

I resemble a pelican of the wilderness. I have become like an owl of the waste places.

Job 17:14

If I say to the pit: You are my father! And to the worm: You are my mother and sister!

Psalm 44:19

You crushed us in a place for jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.

Isaiah 13:21-22

But desert animals will lie down there. Their houses will be full of owls! Shaggy goats (demons) will play there and ostriches will dance there.

Isaiah 38:14

I cry like a swallow (swift). I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Jehovah. I am terribly abused. Please come and help me.

Malachi 1:3

And yet I hated Esau and his descendants. I devastated Esau's hill country and abandoned his inheritance to the desert jackals.

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