Job 18:3
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed dull in your sight?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
In Context
2How long will ye lay snares for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
Cross References
Job 12:7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee;
Job 17:10But as for you all, do ye return, and come now; and I shall not find a wise man among you.
Ecclesiastes 3:18I said in my heart: 'It is because of the sons of men, that God may sift them, and that they may see that they themselves are but 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 →