Job 18:3

Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.

4(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

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Cross References

Job 12:7And yet, ask, I pray thee, [One of] the beasts, and it doth shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to thee.

Job 17:10Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.

Ecclesiastes 3:18I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves [are] 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 →

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