Job Chapter 18 verse 3 Holy Bible

ASV Job 18:3

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, `And' are become unclean in your sight?
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BBE Job 18:3

Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?
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DARBY Job 18:3

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?
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KJV Job 18:3

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
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WBT Job 18:3

Why are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
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WEB Job 18:3

Why are we counted as animals, Which have become unclean in your sight?
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YLT Job 18:3

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

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - Wherefore are we counted as beasts? The allusion is probably to Job 16:10, where Job spoke of his "comforters" as "gaping upon him with their mouths." And reputed vile in your sight! or, reckoned unclean. Job had spoken of his "miserable comforters" as "ungodly and wicked" (Job 16:11), without wisdom (Job 17:10) and without understanding (Job 17:4). But he had not said that they were "unclean." Bildad, therefore, misrepresents him.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Wherefore are we counted as beasts.--Referring to Job's words (Job 13:4, &c., Job 16:2, &c.). In this chapter there is a marked increase in his harshness and violence. It has, however, a certain resemblance to Job 8, inasmuch as Bildad works out a simile here, as he did there; and in Job 18:16 the two similes touch. In Job 18:2, which resembles Job 8:2, we must supply, as the Authorised Version does, Will it be ere? or the negative, Will ye not make? &c., or else we must render, "How long [will ye speak thus]? Make an end of words," &c. The plural is used because Job is regarded as the representative of a class, or else as we use the plural instead of the singular in addressing a person.