Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

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

New American Standard Bible

“Why are we regarded as beasts,
As stupid in your eyes?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Why are we regarded as cattle,
as stupid in your sight?

International Standard Version

Why do you think we're like dumb animals? Do you think we're stupid?

A Conservative Version

Why are we counted as beasts, [and] have 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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
as beasts
בּהמה 
B@hemah 
Usage: 190

טמה 
Tamah 
Usage: 1

Verse Info

Context Readings

Bildad's Second Speech

2 How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak. 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, And are become unclean in your sight? 4 Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?


Cross References

Psalm 73:22

So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was as 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 hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou 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 but as beasts.

Romans 12:10

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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