Job 30:29
I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.