KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 30:28–29
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Job 30:28
28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
28I went mourning without the Sunne: I stood vp, and I cried in the Congregation.
Job 30:29
29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
29*I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to ‖owles.
- Or, ostriches.
- Psal. 102.6.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 30:28
Grieving or lamenting; also outward signs or customs of sorrow.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Outside; not within; lacking; free from; or in the absence of.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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congregation
An assembled body or community of people, especially the gathered people of Israel or worshippers before God.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 30:29
A male sibling; a near kinsman; or a fellow member of a people or faith, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Creatures inhabiting waste or desert places, described by their dwelling, cry, or snuffing.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
One who accompanies, associates, or shares the stated work, condition, or relationship with another.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The bird called an owl in the KJV; the entry does not impose a particular modern species.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 28
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Open the full verse study6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
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Open the full verse study9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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Open the full verse study2For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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Open the full verse study3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4¶ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
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Open the full verse study7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
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Open the full verse study1I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
From verse 29
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Open the full verse study8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
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Open the full verse study6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
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Open the full verse study14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
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Open the full verse study3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
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Open the full verse study19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
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Open the full verse study21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
22And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
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Open the full verse study14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
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