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How long[a] will you[b] hunt for words?[c]
Consider,[d] and afterward we shall speak.
Why are we considered as animals?
Why are we taken as[e] stupid in your[f] eyes?
You who are tearing yourself[g] in your[h] anger,
will the earth be forsaken because of you?[i]
Or[j] will the rock be removed from its place?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 18:2 Literally “Until when”
  2. Job 18:2 Plural
  3. Job 18:2 Literally “will you set a snare for words”
  4. Job 18:2 Or “you should consider”; plural second person
  5. Job 18:3 Or “considered”
  6. Job 18:3 Plural
  7. Job 18:4 Literally “his soul,” or “his individual self”
  8. Job 18:4 Hebrew “his”
  9. Job 18:4 Singular
  10. Job 18:4 Hebrew “And”