²⁹ I am a brother of jackals
    and a companion of ostriches.^(A)

⁸ For this I will lament and wail;
    I will go barefoot and naked;
I will make lamentation like the jackals
    and mourning like the ostriches.^(A)

⁶ I am like a desert owl^[a] of the wilderness,
    like a little owl of the waste places.^(A)

¹⁹ yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals
    and covered us with deep darkness.^(A)

¹⁴ if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’^(A)

²¹ But wild animals will lie down there,
    and its houses will be full of howling creatures;
there ostriches will live,
    and there goat-demons will dance.^(A)
22 Hyenas will cry in its towers
    and jackals in the pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand;
    and its days will not be prolonged.^(B)