Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Why do you think we're like dumb animals? Do you think we're stupid?
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?
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
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 18:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Bildad's Second Speech
2 "When are you going to stop your word hunt? Think first, and then we can talk. 3 Why do you think we're like dumb animals? Do you think we're stupid? 4 You're tearing yourself to pieces in your anger. Will the land be abandoned because of you, or the rock be moved from its place?"
Names
Cross References
Psalm 73:22
Then, I was too stupid and didn't realize I was acting like a wild animal with you.
Job 12:7-8
"Ask the wild animals, and they'll teach you; the birds of the sky will tell you.
Job 17:4
"Because you're the one who closed their hearts to compassion; therefore, you won't let them triumph.
Job 17:10
"Come here now, all of you, and I won't find a wise person among you.
Ecclesiastes 3:18
"As for human beings," I told myself, "God puts them to the test, that they might see themselves as mere animals."
Romans 12:10
Be devoted to each other with mutual affection. Excel at showing respect for each other.