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Why are we considered as animals?
Why are we taken as[a] stupid in your[b] eyes?
You who are tearing yourself[c] in your[d] anger,
will the earth be forsaken because of you?[e]
Or[f] will the rock be removed from its place?
Furthermore,[g] the light of the wicked is put out,
and the flame of his fire will not shine.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 18:3 Or “considered”
  2. Job 18:3 Plural
  3. Job 18:4 Literally “his soul,” or “his individual self”
  4. Job 18:4 Hebrew “his”
  5. Job 18:4 Singular
  6. Job 18:4 Hebrew “And”
  7. Job 18:5 Or “Also”

Why are we regarded as cattle(A)
    and considered stupid in your sight?(B)
You who tear yourself(C) to pieces in your anger,(D)
    is the earth to be abandoned for your sake?
    Or must the rocks be moved from their place?(E)

“The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out;(F)
    the flame of his fire stops burning.(G)

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