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Job 30:29–30

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I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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From verse 29

  1. Micah 1:8Rank 1 from verse 29
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    8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

  2. Psalms 102:6Rank 2 from verse 29
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    6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

  3. Job 17:14Rank 3 from verse 29
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    14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

  4. Malachi 1:3Rank 4 from verse 29
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    3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

  5. Psalms 44:19Rank 5 from verse 29
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    19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

From verse 30

  1. Lamentations 4:8Rank 1 from verse 30
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    8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

  2. Psalms 102:3Rank 2 from verse 30
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    3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

  3. Psalms 119:83Rank 3 from verse 30
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    83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

  4. Lamentations 3:4Rank 4 from verse 30
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    4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

  5. Lamentations 5:10Rank 5 from verse 30
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    10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

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DEFINED WORDS

Job 30:29

COMBINED MEANING

brother

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Sense 1: A male sibling; a near kinsman. Sense 2: A fellow member of a people or faith.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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dragons

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Large serpentine creatures and creatures of waste or desert places.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

companion

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One who accompanies, associates, or shares a condition, work, covenant, or fellowship with another; a fellow, mate, or partner.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Job 30:30

COMBINED MEANING

skin

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Sense 1: The natural outer covering of a person or animal; the hide or exterior covering. Sense 2: To strip off the skin or hide.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

black

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Sense 1: Of the darkest colour. Sense 2: Dark or blackened in appearance. Sense 3: Figuratively, darkened by mourning, famine, or judgment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

upon

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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

burned

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Sense 1: Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of burn, meaning to consume, injure, heat, dry, or harden by fire or intense heat. Sense 2: To be on fire.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

heat

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Sense 1: Warmth or high temperature. Sense 2: To make or become hot.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

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

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30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

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31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

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