Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
Beasts - alluding to what Job said (Job 12:7; so Isaiah 1:3; Psalms 49:12; Psalms 49:20).
Vile - rather, from a Hebrew root, to stop up х niTmiynuw (H2933), not from Taamee' (H2930), but from Taamaah (H2933), or 'aaTam (H331)]. 'Stubborn,' answering to the stupidity implied in the parallel first clause (Umbreit). Why should we give occasion by your empty speeches for our being mutually reputed in the sight of Job, and one another, unintelligent? (Job 17:4; Job 17:10.)