Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. {owls: Heb. daughters of the owl}

I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

I have said to corruption, Thou {art} my father: to the worm, {Thou art} my mother, and my sister. {said: Heb. cried, or, called}

But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. {wild...: Heb. Ziim} {doleful...: Heb. Ochim} {owls: or, ostriches: Heb. daughters of the owl}

Like a crane {or} a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail {with looking} upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. {undertake...: or, ease me}

Like a crane {or} a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail {with looking} upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. {undertake...: or, ease me}

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. {owls: Heb. daughters of the owl}

And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

{Gavest thou} the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? {wings and...: or, the feathers of the stork and ostrich}

And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.