Job 30:29

Overview - Job 30
Job's honour is turned into extreme contempt;
15 and his prosperity into calamity.
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Job 30:29  (King James Version)
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
 


a brother
17:14 Psalms 102:6 ; Isaiah 13:21 Isaiah 13:22 ; 38:14 Micah 1:8 ; Malachi 1:3

owls
or, ostriches.
{Benoth ynah,} in Arabic, {bintu nmatin,} not owls, but ostriches, so called from their doleful and hideous noises. "I have often," says Dr. Shaw, "heard them groan as if they
were in the greatest agonies."