Job 18:3
Why are we accounted as brutes, And reputed vile in your sight?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
In Context
2How long ere ye make an end of words? Understand, and then we will speak!
Cross References
Job 12:7For ask now the beasts, and they will teach thee; Or the fowls of the air, and they will tell thee;
Job 17:10But as for you all, return, I pray! I find not yet among you one wise man.
Ecclesiastes 3:18I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God will prove them, in order that they may see that they are like the 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 →