Job 18:3 - Exposition

Wherefore are we counted as beasts? The allusion is probably to Job 16:10 , where Job spoke of his "comforters" as "gaping upon him with their mouths." And reputed vile in your sight! or, reckoned unclean . Job had spoken of his "miserable comforters" as "ungodly and wicked" ( Job 16:11 ), without wisdom ( Job 17:10 ) and without understanding ( Job 17:4 ). But he had not said that they were "unclean." Bildad, therefore, misrepresents him.