Job 30:29

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Mic 1:8 : 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.
  • Ps 102:6 : 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.
  • Isa 13:21-22 : 21 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. 22 And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
  • Isa 38:14 : 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.
  • Job 17:14 : 14 If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
  • Mal 1:3 : 3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

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  • Job 30:30-31
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    30 My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.

    31 Therefore is my harp [turned] to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.

  • 28 I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

  • Ps 102:6-7
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    6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.

    7 I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.

  • 19 He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • 9 And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.

  • Isa 34:13-15
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    13 And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.

    14 And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.

    15 There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.

  • 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.

  • Job 7:11-12
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    11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

    12 Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?

  • 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

  • 20 The beasts of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

  • 13 They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • Isa 38:13-14
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    13 I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

    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.

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    15 and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,

    16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,

    17 and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,

  • Jer 12:8-9
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    8 My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest: she hath uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.

    9 Is my heritage unto me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about? go ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.

  • Lev 11:16-17
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    16 and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,

    17 and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,

  • 19 That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

  • 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

  • 11 Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.

  • 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.

  • 10 He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

  • 14 If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;

  • 15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

  • Job 19:18-20
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    18 Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

    19 All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

    20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

  • 18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:

  • 7 Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together.

  • 4 My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

  • 3 So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

  • 13 Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?

  • 22 And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

  • Job 29:2-4
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    2 Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

    3 When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

    4 As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;

  • 11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them.

  • 6 But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

  • 11 But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.

  • 14 Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

  • 32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.

  • 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries.