◄ Job 18:3 ►
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Good News Translation
What makes you think we are as stupid as cattle?

New Revised Standard Version
Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?

Contemporary English Version
Or do you think that we are dumb animals?

New American Bible
Why are we accounted like beasts, equal to them in your sight?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?

Wherefore

Job 12:7,8 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee. . . .

Job 17:4,10 Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted. . . .

Psalm 73:22 And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.

Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.

Romans 12:10 Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood: with honour preventing one another.

Context
Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked
…2How long will you throw out words? understand first, and so let us speak. 3Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?4Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall rocks be removed out of their place?…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:3
Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.

Job 18:2
How long will you throw out words? understand first, and so let us speak.

Job 18:4
Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall rocks be removed out of their place?

Psalm 73:22
And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.

Job 18:2
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