Job 18:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

As beasts, i.e. ignorant, blockish, and stupid men, Job 17:4,10. Vile, Heb. polluted, or unclean, i.e. not fit to be conversed or discoursed with; or contemptible, as such things are. In your sight; either,

1. To your faces, or in your own hearing. Or,

2. In thy sight or judgment, O Job; so he speaks of Job in the plural number, as he did Job 18:2.

Job 18:3

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