“Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?”
"Why are we counted as beasts, and regarded as stupid in your sight?" Bildad defends the friends against Job's contempt. He suggests that Job treats them as animals, as less than human in intelligence. This verse indicates that the friends have felt Job's scorn and are responding defensively. Their authority is wounded.
Church Fathers on Job 18:3
In a former part of this work we have handled the point, that Almighty God, in order to amend the hearts of those under the law, brought forward the life of blessed Job for a testimony, who knew not the law and yet kept it, who observed the precepts of life, which he had not received in writing. This man’s conduct is first extolled by God’s bearing witness to it, and is afterwards suffered to be put to the proof by the devil’s plotting against it, that he might prove by the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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