Parallel Verses

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?

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

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 you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak. 3 “Why are we regarded as beasts,
As stupid in your eyes?
4 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?

Cross References

Psalm 73:22

I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.

Job 12:7-8

"But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;

Job 17:4

Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.

Job 17:10

But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.

Ecclesiastes 3:18

I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.

Romans 12:10

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

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