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Job 18:3
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Why are we regarded as cattle,as stupid in your sight?
Why are we counted as animals, Which have become unclean in your sight?
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?
You think of us as cattle, as if we are stupid.
Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?
"Why are we regarded as beasts, As if [we are] stupid (senseless) in your eyes?
"Why are we regarded as animals, As stupid in your eyes?
Why are we counted as animals, Which have become unclean in your sight?
Wherefore are wee counted as beastes, and are vile in your sight?
Why are we regarded as beasts,As dense in your eyes?
Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
Why are we thought of as cattle, stupid in your view?
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?
Why do you think we are stupid, like dumb cows?
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and have become abominable in your sight? O you who slays himself in his anger?
What makes you think we are as stupid as cattle?
Why are we considered as animals? Why are we taken as stupid in your eyes?
Why are we counted as animals? Are we stupid in your eyes?
Wherfore are we counted as beestes, & reputed so vyle in youre sight?
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, And are become unclean in your sight?
Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed dull in your sight?
Wherefore are wee counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
Wherfore are we counted as beastes, and reputed so vyle in your sight?
For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and are become unclean in your sight?
Whi ben we arettid as beestis, and han we be foule bifor thee?
Why are we counted as beasts, [And] have we become unclean in your sight?
Why are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?
Why are we counted as beasts, And regarded as stupid in your sight?
Do you think we are mere animals? Do you think we are stupid?
Why are we thought of as animals? Why do you see us as not being able to think?
Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?
Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?
Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?
Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?
Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!
"Why are we regarded as beasts, As stupid in your eyes?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Wherefore: Job 12:7, Job 12:8, Job 17:4, Job 17:10, Psalms 73:22, Ecclesiastes 3:18, Romans 12:10
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 25:3 - vile unto thee
Cross-References
and now I own cattle, donkeys, and sheep, as well as many slaves. Master, I am sending these messengers in the hope that you will be kind to me."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Wherefore are we counted as beasts,.... This seems to refer to
Job 12:7; where Job sends them to the beasts, to get knowledge and instruction; and therefore it was concluded he reckoned them as such, and put them on a level with them, yea, made them inferior to them; or to Job 17:4; where they are represented as destitute of wisdom and understanding, and therefore it is supposed were counted by Job no other than as beasts. Man, by the fall, is indeed become like them, and some are more brutish than they, and all are brutish as to spiritual knowledge and understanding; and those that are most sensible of themselves are ready to acknowledge their ignorance, that they are more brutish than any, and especially are as a beast before God; and particularly with respect to knowledge of the methods of Providence, in regard to his dealings with the righteous and wicked; see Psalms 73:22; and which was the case in controversy between Job and his friends; but yet self-sufficient persons do not care to have their understandings in anything called in question, but like the Pharisees say, "are we blind also?" John 9:40; and take it very hard that they should be reckoned like beasts, void of understanding, when they are the people, and wisdom will die with them:
[and] reputed vile in your sight? as wicked and profligate persons, the most abandoned of mankind, such as are justly despised by good men, see Psalms 15:4; or "unclean" h, filthy, polluted, and defiled, as all men are by nature, and as they are in all the powers and faculties of their souls; nor can they make themselves clean, their hearts or their hands; nothing short of the grace of God, and blood of Christ, can cleanse from sin; yet self-righteous persons think themselves clean and pure when they are not washed from their sins, and take it ill of others to be reputed unclean persons: or "shut" i, stopped up, as the hearts of men are from God and Christ, and the true knowledge of them, and divine things, until opened by him who has the key of the house of David, and opens, and no man shuts; or "hidden" k, referring to Job 17:4; having a covering over their hearts, and a vail over the eyes of their understandings, so that the things of Providence were hid from them, as sometimes the things of grace are from the wise and prudent; but to be thought that this was their case is resented by Bildad.
h נטמינו "immundi", Drusius, Piscator, Michaelis; so Broughton. i "Clausi sumu", Montanus; "obturati sumus", Hebraei, in Mercer. k So the Targum.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Wherefore are we counted as beasts? - “Why are we treated in your remarks as if we had no sense, and were unworthy of sound argument in reply to what we say?” It is possible that there may be reference here to what Job said Job 12:7 - that even the beasts could give them information about God. But the general idea is, that Job had not treated their views with the attention which they deserved, but had regarded them as unworthy of notice.
And reputed vile - The word used here (טמה ṭâmâh) means to be unclean, or polluted; and the idea is, that Job regarded them as worthless or impious.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 18:3. Counted as beasts — Thou treatest us as if we had neither reason nor understanding.
