Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

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 Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry. 29 A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich. 30 My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,



Cross References

Micah 1:8

For this I lament and howl, I go spoiled and naked, I make a lamentation like dragons, And a mourning like daughters of an ostrich.

Psalm 102:6

I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, I have been as an owl of the dry places.

Job 17:14

To corruption I have called: -- 'Thou art my father.' 'My mother' and 'my sister' -- to the worm.

Psalm 44:19

But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.

Isaiah 13:21-22

And Ziim have lain down there, And full have been their houses of howlings, And dwelt there have daughters of an ostrich, And goats do skip there.

Isaiah 38:14

As a crane -- a swallow -- so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression is on me, be my surety.

Malachi 1:3

Is not Esau Jacob's brother? -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.

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