Job 18:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 73:22 : 22 As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.
  • Job 17:4 : 4 You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.
  • Job 17:10 : 10 But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.
  • Eccl 3:18 : 18 I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.
  • Rom 12:10 : 10 Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;
  • Job 12:7-8 : 7 But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you; 8 Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it.

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