I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to
owls.
] Or ostriches, as the Targum, Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac,
and Arabic versions; either he was obliged to dwell with such
persons as were comparable to these creatures for their devouring
words, hissing noise, and venomous speeches, or for want of
compassion, and for their cruelty, as David is said to be among
lions, ( Psalms 57:4 ) ; or
also, he was like unto them, being solitary and alone, all his
friends and acquaintance standing at a distance from him, as
these creatures love lonesome and desolate places; or because of
the wailing and howling noise they make, to which his mournful
notes bore some resemblance, (See Gill on Micah
1:8); or because, when these creatures cry and howl, and
make a noise, no mercy is shown to them, none pities or regards
them; and so it was with him; though he stood and cried in ever
so public a manner, none had any compassion on him.