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 When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk. 3 “Why are we regarded as beasts,
As stupid in your eyes?
4 You tear yourself to pieces in your anger! Is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place?

Cross References

Psalm 73:22

I was so foolish and ignorant: I was like a beast before you.

Job 12:7-8

Ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the air and they will tell you.

Job 17:4

You close their minds and hearts so that they cannot understand. That is why you will not honor them.

Job 17:10

But now, you must come and try again! I will not find one wise man among you.

Ecclesiastes 3:18

I said in my heart concerning the condition of the sons of men, God tested them that they might see that they are like animals.

Romans 12:10

Be devoted to one another with brotherly love, in honor preferring one another.

King James Version Public Domain

Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers.

International Standard Version Copyright © 1996-2008 by the ISV Foundation.

New American Standard Bible Copyright ©1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org

American Standard Version Public Domain

NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. NetBible

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain