Job 30:29

Wycliffe Bible

Y was the brother of dragouns, and the felow of ostrigis.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I have become a brother to jackalsand a companion of ostriches.

Hebrew Names Version
I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

King James Version
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

English Standard Version
I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.

New Century Version
I have become a brother to wild dogs and a friend to ostriches.

New English Translation
I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

Amplified Bible
"I am a brother to [howling] jackals, And a companion to ostriches [which scream dismally].

New American Standard Bible
"I have become a brother to jackals, And a companion of ostriches.

World English Bible
I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I am a brother to the dragons, & a companion to the ostriches.

Legacy Standard Bible
I have become a brother to jackalsAnd a companion of ostriches.

Berean Standard Bible
I have become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.

Contemporary English Version
making mournful sounds like jackals and owls.

Complete Jewish Bible
I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

Darby Translation
I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.

Easy-to-Read Version
making sad sounds like the wild dogs, like the ostriches in the desert.

George Lamsa Translation
I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

Good News Translation
My voice is as sad and lonely as the cries of a jackal or an ostrich.

Lexham English Bible
I am a companion for the jackals and a companion for ostriches.

Literal Translation
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to daughters of the ostrich.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But now. I am a copanyon of dragons, & a felowe of Esiriches.

American Standard Version
I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

Bible in Basic English
I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

King James Version (1611)
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owles.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But nowe I am a brother of dragons, and a felowe of Estriches.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.

English Revised Version
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

Update Bible Version
I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

Webster's Bible Translation
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

New King James Version
I am a brother of jackals, And a companion of ostriches.

New Living Translation
Instead, I am considered a brother to jackals and a companion to owls.

New Life Bible
I have become a brother to wild dogs, and a friend of ostriches.

New Revised Standard
I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A brother, became I to the brutes that howl, and a companion to the birds that screech:

Douay-Rheims Bible
I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.

Revised Standard Version
I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches.

Young's Literal Translation
A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I have become a brother to jackals And a companion of ostriches.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ Y am dryuun in to nouyt; he took awei my desir as wynd, and myn helpe passide awei as a cloude. ¹⁶ But now my soule fadith in my silf, and daies of turment holden me stidfastly. ¹⁷ In nyyt my boon is persid with sorewis; and thei, that eten me, slepen not. ¹⁸ In the multitude of tho my cloth is wastid, and thei han gird me as with coler of a coote. ¹⁹ Y am comparisound to cley, and Y am maad lijk to a deed sparcle and aisch. ²⁰ Y schal cry to thee, and thou schalt not here me; Y stonde, and thou biholdist not me. ²¹ Thou art chaungid in to cruel to me, and in the hardnesse of thin hond thou art aduersarie to me. ²² Thou hast reisid me, and hast set as on wynd; and hast hurtlid me doun strongli. ²³ Y woot, that thow schalt bitake me to deeth, where an hows is ordeyned to ech lyuynge man. ²⁴ Netheles thou sendist not out thin hond to the wastyng of hem; and if thei fallen doun, thou schalt saue.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

owls: or, ostriches, Benoth yaanah, in Arabic, bintu naamatin, 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.

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 14:15 - General Job 13:28 - And he Job 39:13 - wings and feathers unto the Proverbs 18:9 - is brother Isaiah 59:11 - mourn

Cross-References

Genesis 30:5
and whanne the hosebonde hadde entrid to hir, sche conseyuede, and childide a sone.

Genesis 30:8
for whom Rachel seide, The Lord hath maad me lijk to my sistir, and Y wexide strong; and sche clepide hym Neptalym.

Genesis 30:9
Lya feelide that sche ceesside to bere child, and sche yaf Selfa, hir handmayde, to the hosebonde.

Genesis 30:10
And whanne Selfa aftir conseyuyng childide a sone, Lya seide, Blessidly;

Genesis 30:22
Also the Lord hadde mynde on Rachel, and herde hir, and openyde hir wombe.

Genesis 30:25
Sotheli whanne Joseph was borun, Jacob seide to his wyues fadir, Delyuere thou me, that Y turne ayen in to my cuntrey and to my lond.

Genesis 30:38
And Jacob puttide tho yerdis in the trowis, where the watir was held out, that whanne the flockis schulden come to drynke, thei schulden haue the yerdis bifor the iyen, and schulden conseyue in the siyt of the yerdis.

Genesis 30:40
And Jacob departide the floc, and puttide the yerdis in the trowis bifor the iyen of the rammys. Sotheli alle the white and blake weren Labans; sotheli the othere weren Jacobis; for the flockis weren departid bytwixe hem silf.

Genesis 31:6
And ye witen that with alle my strengthis Y seruede youre fadir;

Matthew 24:45
Who gessist thou is a trewe seruaunt and prudent, whom his lord ordeyned on his meynee, to yyue hem mete in tyme?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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,

Psalms 57:4- :; 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I am a brother to dragons - That is, my loud complaints and cries resemble the doleful screams of wild animals, or of the most frightful monsters. The word “brother” is often used in this sense, to denote similarity in any respect. The word “dragons” here (תנין tannı̂yn), denotes properly a sea-monster, a great fish, a crocodile; or the fancied animal with wings called a dragon; see the notes at Isaiah 13:22. Gesenius, Umbreit, and Noyes, render this word here jackals - an animal between a dog and a fox, or a wolf and a fox; an animal that abounds in deserts and solitudes, and that makes a doleful cry in the night. So the Syriac renders it an animal resembling a dog; a wild dog. Castell. This idea agrees with the scope of the passage better than the common reference to a sea-monster or a crocodile. “The Deeb, or Jackal,” says Shaw, “is of a darker color than the fox, and about the same bigness. It yelps every night about the gardens and villages, feeding upon roots, fruit, and carrion.” Travels, p. 247, Ed. Oxford, 1738. That some wild animal, distinguished for a mournful noise, or howl, is meant, is evident; and the passage better agrees with the description of a jackal than the hissing of a serpent or the noise of the crocodile. Bochart supposes that the allusion is to dragons, because they erect their heads, and their jaws are drawn open, and they seem to be complaining against God on account of their humble and miserable condition. Taylor (Concord.) supposes it means jackals or thoes, and refers to the following places where the word may be so used; Psalms 44:19; Isaiah 13:22; Isaiah 34:13; Isaiah 35:7; Isaiah 43:20; Jeremiah 11:11; Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 49:33; Jeremiah 51:37; Lamentations 4:3; Micah 1:8; Malachi 1:3.

And a companion to owls - Margin, ostriches. The word companion here is used in a sense similar to brother in the other member of the parallelism, to denote resemblance. The Hebrew, here rendered owls, is, literally, daughters of answering, or clamor - יענה בנות b^enôth ya‛ănâh. The name is given on account of the plaintive and mournful cry which is made. Bochart. Gesenius supposes, however, that it is on account of its greediness and gluttony. The name “daughters of the ostrich.” denotes properly the female ostrich. The phrase is, however, put for the ostrich of both sexes in many places; see Gesenius on the word יענה ya‛ănâh; compare the notes at Isaiah 13:21. For a full examination of the meaning of the phrase, see Bochart, Hieroz. P. ii. L. 2. cap. xiv. pp. 218-231; see also Job 39:13-17. There can be little doubt that the ostrich is here intended, and Job means to say that his mourning resembled the doleful noise made by the ostrich in the lonely desert. Shaw, in his Travels, says that during the night “they (the ostriches) make very doleful and hideous noises; which would sometimes be like the roaring of a lion; at other times it would bear a nearer resemblance to the hoarser voice of other quadrupeds, particularly of the bull and the ox. I have often heard them groan as if they were in the greatest agonies.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 30:29. I am a brother to dragons — By my mournful and continual cry I resemble תנים tannim, the jackals or hyenas.

And a companion to owls. — בנות יענה benoth yaanah, to the daughters of howling: generally understood to be the ostrich; for both the jackal and the female ostrich are remarkable for their mournful cry, and for their attachment to desolate places.-Dodd.