Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

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.

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 mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help. 29 I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches. 30 My skin is black, [and falls] from me. And my bones are burned with heat.

Cross References

Micah 1:8

For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.

Psalm 102:6

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

Job 17:14

if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,

Psalm 44:19

that thou have greatly broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Isaiah 13:21-22

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

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail [with looking] upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

Malachi 1:3

but Esau I regarded inferior, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

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