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Job 30:29

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

KJV

Frater fui draconum, et socius struthionum.

Vulgate

ἀδελφὸς γέγονα σειρήνων, ἑταῖρος δὲ στρουθῶν.

LXX

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

ASV

אָ֭ח הָיִ֣יתִי לְ/תַנִּ֑ים וְ֝/רֵ֗עַ לִ/בְנ֥וֹת יַעֲנָֽה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בַּת
bt
noun · 585×
הוּ
hv
noun · 186×
ו
v
noun · 629×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יַעֲנָֽה
y'nh
noun · 8×
תַנִּֽין
tnyn
noun · 26×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Isa 38:14 — Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
  • Mic 1:8 — Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
  • Ps 44:19 — Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
  • Ps 102:6 — I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
  • Ps 102:6 — I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.