Job 18:3
Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
In Context
2How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak.
Cross References
Job 12:7In truth, ask the mules, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will reveal to you.
Job 17:10Therefore, be converted, all of you, and approach, for I do not find in you any wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 3:18I said in my heart, about the sons of men, that God would test them, and reveal them to be like wild animals.
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 →