Ayub 30:29

30:29 I have become a brother to jackals

and a companion of ostriches. ¹ 

Ayub 34:16

God Is Impartial and Omniscient

34:16 “If you have ²  understanding, listen to this,

hear what I have to say. ³ 

¹ sn The point of this figure is that Job’s cries of lament are like the howls and screeches of these animals, not that he lives with them. In Job 39:13 the female ostrich is called “the wailer.”

² tn The phrase “you have” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.

³ tn Heb “the sound of my words.”