Job 18:3

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Why are we regarded as animals and considered unclean in your eyes?

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  • Ps 73:22 : 22 I was senseless and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.
  • Job 17:4 : 4 For you have closed their hearts to understanding; therefore, you will not exalt them.
  • Job 17:10 : 10 But as for all of you, return and come now, for I do not find a wise man among you.
  • Eccl 3:18 : 18 I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man, that God is testing them to show them that they are like animals.
  • Rom 12:10 : 10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
  • Job 12:7-8 : 7 "But ask the animals, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you." 8 "Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you."

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  • 4You who tear yourself in anger—for your sake should the earth be abandoned, and the rock moved from its place?

  • 24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

  • 3Lord, what is man that You care for him, or a son of man that You think of him?

  • 3Do you fix your gaze on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

  • 1A contemplation of Asaph. O God, why have You rejected us forever? Why does Your anger burn against the sheep of Your pasture?

  • 3Show us mercy, O LORD, show us mercy, for we have had more than enough of scorn.

  • 18I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man, that God is testing them to show them that they are like animals.

  • 17What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention,

  • 2How long will you keep putting an end to words? Consider, and then we will speak.

  • 19He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

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    3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands, while You favor the plans of the wicked?

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    14What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of a woman, that he could be righteous?

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    2How long will you torment my soul and crush me with words?

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    24Awake, Lord! Why do You sleep? Rouse Yourself; do not reject us forever.

    25Why do You hide Your face and forget our misery and oppression?

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  • 17Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be purer than his Maker?

  • 6How much less a mortal, who is but a maggot, and a human, who is only a worm!

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    4We have become an object of scorn to our neighbors, mocked and ridiculed by those around us.

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