Job 18:3

Wherefore are wee counted as beastes, and are vile in your sight?

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2When will yee make an ende of your words? cause vs to vnderstande, and then wee will speake.

4Thou art as one that teareth his soule in his anger. Shall the earth bee forsaken for thy sake? or the rocke remoued out of his place?

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Cross References

Job 12:7Aske now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the foules of the heauen, and they shall tell thee:

Job 17:10All you therefore turne you, and come nowe, and I shall not finde one wise among you.

Ecclesiastes 3:18I considered in mine heart the state of the children of men that God had purged them: yet to see to, they are in themselues as beastes.

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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