Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why are we considered as animals? [Why] are we taken as stupid 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?
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?
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 you hunt for words}? Consider, and afterward we shall speak. 3 Why are we considered as animals? [Why] are we taken as stupid in your eyes? 4 "[You who] are tearing {yourself} in your anger, will [the] earth be forsaken because of you? Or will [the] rock be removed from its place?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 73:22
then I was brutish and ignorant. With you I was [like] the beasts.
Job 12:7-8
"But ask [the] animals, and they will teach you, and the birds of the heaven, and they will tell you;
Job 17:4
Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let [them] triumph.
Job 17:10
But {all of you must return}--{please come}! But I shall not find a wise [person] among you.
Ecclesiastes 3:18
I said to myself concerning {humans}, "God sifts them in order to show them that they are like beasts."
Romans 12:10
being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another [more highly] in honor,