Job 30:29

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Mic 1:8 : 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.
  • Ps 102:6 : 6 I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, I have been as an owl of the dry places.
  • Isa 13:21-22 : 21 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. 22 And Aiim have responded in his forsaken habitations, And dragons in palaces of delight, And near to come `is' her time, And her days are not drawn out!
  • Isa 38:14 : 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.
  • Job 17:14 : 14 To corruption I have called: -- `Thou `art' my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' -- to the worm.
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.
  • Mal 1:3 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 30:30-31
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    30My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,

    31And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.

  • 28Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.

  • Ps 102:6-7
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    6I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, I have been as an owl of the dry places.

    7I have watched, and I am As a bird alone on the roof.

  • 19Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • 9And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.

  • Isa 34:13-15
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    13And gone up her palaces have thorns, Nettle and bramble `are' in her fortresses, And it hath been a habitation of dragons, A court for daughters of an ostrich.

    14And met have Ziim with Aiim, And the goat for its companion calleth, Only there rested hath the night-owl, And hath found for herself a place of rest.

    15There made her nest hath the bittern, Yea, she layeth, and hath hatched, And hath gathered under her shadow, Only there gathered have been vultures, Each with its companion.

  • 8For this I lament and howl, I go spoiled and naked, I make a lamentation like dragons, And a mourning like daughters of an ostrich.

  • Job 7:11-12
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    11Also I -- I withhold not my mouth -- I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.

    12A sea-`monster' am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?

  • 1And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.

  • 20Honour me doth the beast of the field, Dragons and daughters of an ostrich, For I have given in a wilderness waters, Floods in a desolate place, To give drink to My people -- My chosen.

  • 13They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring.

  • Isa 38:13-14
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    68%

    13I have set `Him' till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

    14As 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.

  • 67%

    15and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind;

    16the `little' owl, and the `great' owl, and the swan,

    17and the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,

  • Jer 12:8-9
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    8Mine inheritance hath been to Me as a lion in a forest, She gave forth against Me with her voice, Therefore I have hated her.

    9A speckled fowl `is' Mine inheritance to Me? Is the fowl round about against her? Come, assemble, every beast of the field, Come ye for food.

  • Lev 11:16-17
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    16and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind,

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

  • 19But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.

  • 13My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.

  • 11Among all mine adversaries I have been a reproach, And to my neighbours exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintances, Those seeing me without -- fled from me.

  • 40I have been `thus': in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes.

  • 10A bear lying in wait He `is' to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.

  • 14To corruption I have called: -- `Thou `art' my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' -- to the worm.

  • 15Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.

  • Job 19:18-20
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    18Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.

    19Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.

    20To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.

  • 18And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'

  • 7Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.

  • 4My soul `is' in the midst of lions, I lie down `among' flames -- sons of men, Their teeth `are' a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

  • 3So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.

  • 13Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?

  • 22And Aiim have responded in his forsaken habitations, And dragons in palaces of delight, And near to come `is' her time, And her days are not drawn out!

  • Job 29:2-4
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    66%

    2Who doth make me as `in' months past, As `in' the days of God's preserving me?

    3In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk `through' darkness.

    4As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.

  • 11And I make my clothing sackcloth, And I am to them for a simile.

  • 6And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

  • 11And possess her do pelican and hedge-hog, And owl and raven dwell in her, And He hath stretched out over her A line of vacancy, and stones of emptiness.

  • 14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?

  • 32But if a man like myself -- I answer him, We come together into judgment.

  • 11And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.