Job 18:3
Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
In Context
2“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
Cross References
Job 12:7“But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
Job 17:10But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man amongst you.
Ecclesiastes 3:18I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.
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 →