a brother: Job 17:14; Psalms 102:6; Isaiah 13:21-22, Isaiah 38:14; Micah 1:8; Malachi 1:3
owls: or, ostriches, Benoth yaanah:, in Arabic, bintu naamatin:, not owls, but ostriches, so called from their doleful and hideous noises. "I have often," says Dr. Shaw, "heard them groan as if they were in the greatest agonies."