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29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

Job 30:29

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • 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.

  • I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

  • I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

  • Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-31)

In this second part of Job’s complaint, which is very bitter, and has a great many sorrowful accents in it, we may observe a great deal that he complains of and some little that he comforts himself with. I. Here is much that he complains of. 1. In general, it was a day of great affliction and sorrow. (1.) Affliction seized him, and surprised him. It seized him (Job 30:16): The days of affliction h…

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