Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked
Job 18:3
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
- KJV
- Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
- WEB
- Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
- ASV
- Wherefore are we counted as beasts, And are become unclean in your sight?
- LSV
- Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes!
- YLT
- Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!
- DBY
- Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?
- DRC
- Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?
- GNV
- Wherefore are wee counted as beastes, and are vile in your sight?
- JPS
- Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed dull in your sight?
- LXXE
- For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- מַ֭דּוּעַ נֶחְשַׁ֣בְנוּ כַבְּהֵמָ֑ה נִ֝טְמִ֗ינוּ בְּעֵינֵיכֶֽם׃
- LXX-Br
- Διατί δὲ ὥσπερ τετράποδα σεσιωπήκαμεν ἐναντίον σου;
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 73:22I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
- Job 17:10But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
- Job 17:4You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
- Romans 12:10Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.
- Job 12:7–8But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you. Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.
- Ecclesiastes 3:18I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”
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