Job 18:3

For what cause are we counted as beasts, reputed stupid your eyes?

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

In Context

2When will ye at length put an end to words? Come to an understanding, and afterward let us speak.

4Thou, the one that teareth himself to pieces in his anger— shall for thy sake the earth be forsaken, and the rock be moved away out of its place?

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Cross References

Job 12:7Yet, do only ask of the beasts, and they will instruct thee; and the fowls of the heavens, and they will tell it thee;

Job 17:10But all of you, do only return, and come but [to me]: and yet I shall not find among you one wise man.

Ecclesiastes 3:18I said in my heart concerning the speaking of the sons of men, that God might make it clear to them, and that they might see that they by 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 →

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