Job 18:3

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How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.	Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?	He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore are we counted^H2803 as beasts^H929, and reputed vile^H2933 in your sight^H5869?

Original Hebrew

מַדּוּעַ נֶחְשַׁבְנוּ כַבְּהֵמָה נִטְמִינוּ בְּעֵינֵיכֶם׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
מַ֭דּוּעַ	Ma.du.a'	H4069	HTi	why?
נֶחְשַׁ֣בְנוּ	nech.Shav.nu	H2803	HVNp1cp	are we regarded
כַ/בְּהֵמָ֑ה	kha./be.he.Mah	H929	HRd/Ncfsa	like (the)/ cattle
נִ֝טְמִ֗ינוּ	nit.Mi.nu	H2933	HVNp1cp	are we considered stupid?
בְּ/עֵינֵי/כֶֽם	be./'ei.nei./Khem	H5869	HR/Ncbdc/Sp2mp	in/ view/ your

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H929 — בְּהֵמָה (bᵉhêmâh, be-hay-maw'): from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute); properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective); beast, cattle.
H2803 — חָשַׁב (châshab, khaw-shab'): a primitive root; properly, 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.
H2933 — טָמָה (ṭâmâh, taw-maw'): a collateral form of טָמֵא; to be impure in a religious sense; be defiled, be reputed vile.
H5869 — עַיִן (ʻayin, ah'-yin): probably a primitive word; an 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, [phrase] humble, knowledge, look, ([phrase] well), [idiom] me, open(-ly), [phrase] (not) please, presence, [phrase] regard, resemblance, sight, [idiom] thee, [idiom] them, [phrase] think, [idiom] us, well, [idiom] you(-rselves).

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H4069 — מַדּוּעַ (maddûwaʻ, mad-doo'-ah): or מַדֻּעַ; from מָה and the passive participle of יָדַע; what (is) known?; i.e. (by implication) (adverbially) why?; how, wherefore, why.

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

Wherefore — Job 12:7-8, Job 17:4, Job 17:10, Psalms 73:22, Ecclesiastes 3:18, Romans 12:10

Reciprocal references (1): Deuteronomy 25:3

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