Job 18:3
Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
In Context
2How long will you throw out words? understand first, and so let us speak.
Cross References
Job 12:7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee.
Job 17:10Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.
Ecclesiastes 3:18I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like 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 →