a brother: Job 17:14; Psa 102:6; Isa 13:21-22, Isa 38:14; Mic 1:8; Mal 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."