Job 18:3
Do you think we're dumb animals? Do we look stupid to you?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
In Context
Cross References
Job 12:7But if you ask the animals they will teach you, the birds in the sky will tell you;
Job 17:10Why don't you come back and repeat again what you've been saying?—yet I still won't find a wise man among you!
Ecclesiastes 3:18I also thought to myself, “Regarding what happens to human beings—God proves to us that we're no better than 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 →