Job 18:3

For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2How long wilt thou continue? 1 Forbear, that we also may speak. 1

4Anger has possessed thee: 1 For what if thou shouldest die; would the earth under heaven be desolate? 1 Or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations? 1

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Cross References

Job 12:7But ask now the beasts, if they may speak to thee; 1 And the birds of the air, if they may declare to thee. 1

Job 17:10Howbeit, do ye all strengthen yourselves and come now, 1 For I do not find truth in you. 1

Ecclesiastes 3:18I said in my heart, 1 Concerning the speech of the sons of man, 1 God will judge them, 1 And that to show that they are beasts. 1

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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