King James Version

Job 18:3

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

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מַ֭דּוּעַmaduawhyמַדּוּעַparticle, interrogative — “why”H4069what (is) known?; i.e. (by implication) (adverbially) why?how, wherefore, why.נֶחְשַׁ֣בְנוּnechshavnvregardחָשַׁבverb, niphal, perfect, 1st person, common, plural — “regard”, a completed actionH2803properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute(make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.כַבְּהֵמָ֑הkhabhemahas beastבְּהֵמָהpreposition, with the article, noun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “as beast”, the ordinary formH929properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)beast, cattle.נִ֝טְמִ֗ינוּnitminvbe defiledטָמָהverb, niphal, perfect, 1st person, common, plural — “be defiled”, a completed actionH2933to be impure in a religious sensebe defiled, be reputed vile.בְּעֵינֵיכֶֽםbeeyneykhemin eye , , -sightעַיִןpreposition, noun, common, both genders, dual, construct, suffix, pronominal, 2nd person, masculine, plural — “in eye , , -sight”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)affliction, outward appearance, [phrase] before, [phrase] think best, colour, conceit, [phrase] be content, countenance, [phrase] displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, [phrase] favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), [idiom] him…

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed dull in your sight?

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American Standard Version (1901)

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, And are become unclean in your sight?

Young’s Literal Translation

Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!

World English Bible

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

Darby Translation

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?

Douay-Rheims

Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed dull in your sight?

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Διατί δὲ ὥσπερ τετράποδα σεσιωπήκαμεν ἐναντίον σου;