Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
New American Standard Bible
And a companion of ostriches.
King James Version
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
Holman Bible
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.
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.
Themes
the Dragon » Described as » Of solitary habits
Ostriches » Illustrative » (companionship with,) of extreme desolation
Ostriches » In av the word "owl" occurs, but in the rv, it is the word "ostrich,"
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 30:29
Verse Info
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 falleth from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
Names
Cross References
Micah 1:8
For this will I 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 am become as an owl of the waste places.
Job 17:14
If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;
Psalm 44:19
That thou hast sore 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 lie 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 did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
Malachi 1:3
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.