Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore were we reckoned as cattle, and were unclean in your eyes?
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?
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?
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 set an end to words? Ye shall understand, and afterwards we will speak. 3 Wherefore were we reckoned as cattle, and were unclean in your eyes? 4 He rent his soul in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed from its place?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 73:22
And I stupid, and I shall not know, and I was a beast with thee.
Job 12:7-8
But ask now the beasts and they shall teach thee; and the birds of the heavens, and they shall announce to thee:
Job 17:4
For thou didst hide their heart from understanding; for this thou wilt not exalt them.
Job 17:10
But ye all shall turn back, and come ye now, and I shall not find a wise one among you.
Ecclesiastes 3:18
I said in my heart concerning the speeches of the sons of man, for God to separate them, and for them to see that they are cattle to themselves.
Romans 12:10
In brotherly love, being kindly affectioned to one another; in honour preceding one another.