Job 18:3
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
In Context
2How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.
Cross References
Job 12:7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowl of the heavens, and they shall tell thee;
Job 17:10But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you.
Ecclesiastes 3:18I said in my heart, It is thus with the children of men, that God may prove them, and that they should see that they themselves are but 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 →