Job 30:29

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

I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!

I am become like the pelican of the wilderness, I am as an owl in desolate places;

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

Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed with looking upward: Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

For this will I lament, and I will howl; I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.

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

and the female ostrich, and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, and the hawk after its kind;