Job 18:3

Why are we counted as behemah (cattle), 1 and reputed stupid in your sight? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Ad anah (Until when, how long) will it be ere ye make an end of words? 1 Gain binah, and afterwards we will speak. 1

4Thou art he who teareth his nefesh in his anger; 1 shall eretz (earth) be forsaken for thee? 1 And shall the tzur be removed out of its place? 1

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Cross References

Job 12:7But ask now the behemot, and they shall teach thee, 1 and the oph haShomayim (birds of the air), and they shall tell thee; 1

Job 17:10But as for all you, do ye return, and come back now; 1 for I cannot find one chacham among you. 1

Ecclesiastes 3:18I said in mine lev, As for bnei haAdam, HaElohim tests them, that they might see that they themselves are like beheimah.

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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