Job 30:29

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds,