²⁹ I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

⁸ For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.

⁶ I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.

¹⁴ If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, `Thou art' my mother, and my sister;

¹⁹ That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

²¹ But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.

²² And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

¹⁴ Like a swallow `or' a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail `with looking' upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

³ but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and `gave' his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.