Job 30:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.

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Referenced Verses

  • Mic 1:8 : 8 For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.
  • Ps 102:6 : 6 I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.
  • Isa 13:21-22 : 21 But the beasts of the waste land will have their holes there; and the houses will be full of crying jackals, and ostriches will have their place there, and evil spirits will be dancing there. 22 And wolves will be answering one another in their towers, and jackals in their houses of pleasure: her time is near, and her days of power will quickly be ended.
  • Isa 38:14 : 14 I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.
  • Job 17:14 : 14 If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.
  • Mal 1:3 : 3 And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land.

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