``I am a companion to owls.''---Job xxx 29. Vintage engraving of stone monument or tomb with a raven and two owls.

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The engraving shows a broken tombstone or monument, either in a graveyard or in a ruined temple; a raven croaks at the moon in the background and in the foreground a pare of owls regard one another. The nearer owl might just have caught a small rodent. The ruined temple, the broken tomb, the raven and the owl are all symbols of death and decay. The illustration was commissioned (it seems) for the text "I am a companion to owls" (Job 30:29) although modern translations say ostrich rather than owl.

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