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

⁸ For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, And moan like the daughters of owls.

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

¹⁴ If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'

¹⁹ Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

²¹ But wild animals 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 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; my eyes fail [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed, be my collateral.

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