Job 18:3

Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes!

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2“When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.

4He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from its place?

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Cross References

Job 12:7And yet, now ask [one of] the beasts, || And it shows you, || And a bird of the heavens, || And it declares to you.

Job 17:10But please return and come in, all of you, || And I do not find a wise man among you.

Ecclesiastes 3:18I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves [are] 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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