Job 18:3
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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.

Lexicon
Why
מַ֭דּוּעַ (mad·dū·a‘)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4069: Why? for what reason?

are we regarded
נֶחְשַׁ֣בְנוּ (neḥ·šaḇ·nū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2803: To think, account

as cattle,
כַבְּהֵמָ֑ה (ḵab·bə·hê·māh)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 929: A dumb beast, any large quadruped, animal

as stupid
נִ֝טְמִ֗ינוּ (niṭ·mî·nū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2933: To be stopped up, stupid

in your sight?
בְּעֵינֵיכֶֽם׃ (bə·‘ê·nê·ḵem)
Preposition-b | Noun - cdc | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5869: An eye, a fountain


Additional Translations
Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?Why are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, And are become unclean in your sight?

For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?

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

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and are become unclean in your sight?

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

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

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