Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed so vile 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?
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?
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 "When will ye make an end of your words? Mark well, and consider, we will speak also. 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed so vile in your sight? 4 Why destroyest thou thyself with anger? Shall the earth be forsaken, or the stones removed out of their place because of thee?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 73:22
So foolish was I, and ignorant, even as it were a beast before thee.
Job 12:7-8
Ask the cattle, and they shall inform thee; the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee.
Job 17:4
Thou hast withholden their hearts from understanding, therefore shall they not be set up on high.
Job 17:10
"As for you, turn you, and get you hence, I pray you - seeing I cannot see one wise man among you.
Ecclesiastes 3:18
I communed with mine own heart also concerning the children of men: how God hath chosen them, and yet letteth them appear as though they were beasts.
Romans 12:10
Be kind one to another, with brotherly love. In giving honour go one before another.