Job 30:29 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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

Micah 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.
Psalms 102:6
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Job 17:14
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Psalms 44:19
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Malachi 1:3
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

Topics

Birds Ostriches Owl

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 29)

29. dragons ... owls--rather, “jackals,” “ostriches,” both of which utter dismal screams (Mi 1:8); in which respect, as also in their living amidst solitudes (the emblem of desolation), Job is their brother and companion; that is, resembles them. “Dragon,” Hebrew, tannim, usually means the crocodile; so perhaps here, its open jaws lifted towards heaven, and its noise making it seem as if it mourne…