Job 30:29

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Mic 1:8 : 8 For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, And moan like the daughters of owls.
  • Ps 102:6 : 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.
  • Isa 13:21-22 : 21 But wild animals 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 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; my eyes fail [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed, be my collateral.
  • Job 17:14 : 14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt 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."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 30:30-31
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    82%

    30My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

    31Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

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

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

    7I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

  • 19He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

  • 9"Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.

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

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

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

  • 8For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, And moan like the daughters of owls.

  • Job 7:11-12
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    11"Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

    12Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That you put a guard over me?

  • 1"But now those who are younger than I, have me in derision, Whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

  • 20The animals 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,

  • 13They open their mouths wide against me, Lions tearing prey and roaring.

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

    14Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; my eyes fail [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed, be my collateral.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Lev 11:16-17
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    16the horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk,

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

  • 19Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

  • 13"He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

  • 11Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

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

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

  • 14If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'

  • 15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have thrust my horn in the dust.

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

    19All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

    20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

  • 18Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

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

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

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

  • 13Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

  • 22Wolves 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;

    3When his lamp shone on my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

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

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

  • 6"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

  • 11But 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.

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

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

  • 11He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.