Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Why are we counted as beasts, [and] have become unclean in your sight?
New American Standard Bible
As stupid in your eyes?
King James Version
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
Holman Bible
as stupid in your sight?
International Standard Version
Why do you think we're like dumb animals? Do you think we're stupid?
American Standard Version
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, And are become unclean in your sight?
Amplified
“Why are we regarded as beasts,
As if [we are] stupid (senseless) in your eyes?
Bible in Basic English
Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?
Darby Translation
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore were we reckoned as cattle, and were unclean in your eyes?
King James 2000
Why are we counted as beasts, and regarded as vile in your sight?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why are we considered as animals? [Why] are we taken as stupid in your eyes?
Modern King James verseion
Why are we counted as cattle, or seem stupid in your sight?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed so vile in your sight?
NET Bible
Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?
New Heart English Bible
Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?
Webster
Why are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
World English Bible
Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
Youngs Literal Translation
Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 18:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Bildad's Second Speech
2 How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak. 3 Why are we counted as beasts, [and] have become unclean in your sight? 4 Thou who tear thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 73:22
So I was brutish, and ignorant. I was a beast before thee.
Job 12:7-8
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee.
Job 17:4
For thou have hid their heart from understanding. Therefore thou shall not exalt [them].
Job 17:10
But as for you all, come on now again, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
Ecclesiastes 3:18
I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are beasts.
Romans 12:10
with brotherly love toward each other, affectionate, leading each other in recognition,