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Job 18:3

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Why are we regarded as beasts, As stupid in your eyes?
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] are become unclean in your sight?
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become unclean in your sight?
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Why are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Wherefore are wee counted as beastes, and are vile in your sight?
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Wherefore are wee counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and have become abominable in your sight? O you who slays himself in his anger?
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Wherefore x4069
(4069) Complement
מַדּוּעַ
madduwa`
{mad-doo'-ah}
From H4100 and the passive participle of H3045; what (is) known?; that is, (by implication), (adverbially) why?.
are we counted 2803
{2803} Prime
חָשַׁב
chashab
{khaw-shab'}
A primitive root; properly to plait or interpenetrate, that is, (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute.
z8738
<8738> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 1429
as beasts, 929
{0929} Prime
בְּהֵמָה
b@hemah
{be-hay-maw'}
From an unused root (probably meaning to be mute); properly a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collectively).
[and] reputed vile 2933
{2933} Prime
טָמָה
tamah
{taw-maw'}
A collateral form of H2930; to be impure in a religious sense.
z8738
<8738> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 1429
in your sight? 5869
{5869} Prime
עַיִן
`ayin
{ah'-yin}
Probably a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy a fountain (as the eye of the landscape).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Job 18:3

_ _ beasts — alluding to what Job said (Job 12:7; so Isaiah 1:3).

_ _ vile — rather from a Hebrew root, “to stop up.” “Stubborn,” answering to the stupidity implied in the parallel first clause [Umbreit]. Why should we give occasion by your empty speeches for our being mutually reputed, in the sight of Job and one another, as unintelligent? (Job 17:4, Job 17:10).

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Job 18:1-4.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 18:3

Beasts — Ignorant, and stupid men, Job 17:4, Job 17:10.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
Wherefore:

Job 12:7-8 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: ... Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Job 17:4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
Job 17:10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.
Psalms 73:22 So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before thee.
Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
Romans 12:10 [Be] kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Jb 12:7; 17:4, 10. Ps 73:22. Ec 3:18. Ro 12:10.

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