Job 18:3

Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

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In The King James Version

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

In Context

2How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

4But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

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Cross References

Job 12:7But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you;

Job 17:10But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.

Ecclesiastes 3:18I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.

Matthew Henry on Job 18:2-5

Second Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? 4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? Bildad here shoots his arrows, even bitter words, against poor Job, little thinking that, though he was a wise and good man, in this instance he was… Read the whole commentary →

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