Job 30:29

Verse 29. Brother of dragons, and so forth Imitating these creatures in their lamentable noise. Challoner.—I was like those beasts which retire in order to lament. Worthington.—The dragons his dreadfully, when crushed by the elephant; (Saint Jerome) and the young ostriches, being abandoned, make great lamentations. Menochius. Delrio, t. ii. adag. 18.—This comparison occurs, Mic. 1:8. Natural history does not, however, represent these animals as very plaintive. The former term may denote sea monsters, or crocodiles; thannim: (Septuagint syrens) and “the daughters of the yahana,” signify “swans,” (Isaiah 13:21) though commonly rendered ostriches, as they are by the Septuagint and so forth Calmet.—Prot. have, “owls.” But we may adhere to the Vulg. Bible.