Job 18:3
Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
In Context
2“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.
Cross References
Job 12:7But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.
Job 17:10But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
Ecclesiastes 3:18I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they 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 →