Job 18:3

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

"But ask [the] animals, and they will teach you, and the birds of the heaven, and they will tell you;

Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let [them] triumph.

then I was brutish and ignorant. With you I was [like] the beasts.

I said to myself concerning {humans}, "God sifts them in order to show them that they are like beasts."

being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another [more highly] in honor,