John Trapp on Job 18:3

Verſe 3. Wherefore are we counted as beaſts, &c?] Here he taxeth Job of pride and arrogancy; grounding upon thoſe words of his taken at the worſt, chap. 12.7. and 17.4, 10. and not conſidering his caſe, that he was full of paine, which maketh wiſe men tetchy (as oppreſſion maketh them mad, Eccleſ. 7.7.) and that they had ſorely provoked him by their bitter taunts, and ſcurrilous invectives, which called for ſo ſharp a curry-comb. Peſſime antem habes by po[illegible: 1 letter]riſin. ſi contemnatur; Hypocriſie loves not to be ſighted, faith Brentius here. And Gregory upon this Text faith. Thus in Bildad Hereticks are ſet forth, who ſtomack it much that the faithful take upon them to reprove them, as carried away by errour; as if the knowledge of the truth reſided in themſelves only, and all others had no more underſtanding then beaſts. This people which know not the Law are curſed, ſay thoſe Phariſees, John. 7.49.John 11.49. Ye know nothing at all, ſaith Caiaphas to his Aſſeſſors. The Gnoſticks and Illuminates gave out themſelves, to be the only knowing men, &c. But if Bildad had been right ſet, he would neither have ſo far miſconſtrued Jobs words, nor yet have been behind to befool and be beaſt himſelf as Aſaph in like caſe did, Pſal. 73.22. Where he uſeth the Plural of the word here uſed in the Singular, calling himſelfe, Behemoth, id eſt, magna[illegible: 1 letter] & craſſam beſtiam, a great and a groſſe beaſt.

And reputed vile in your ſight] Heb. Polluted or unclean; that is, as beaſts unfit for food, much leſſe fit for ſacrifice. The ſame Hebrew word ſignifieth, polluted and vile. Every wicked man is a vile man, be he never ſo high and honourable in the worlds account, as Antiochus, Dan. 11.21. is called a vile perſon, and yet he was the great King of Syria, firnamed Epiphanes, or Illuſtrious, and by the flattering Samaritans, he was ſtiled, Antiochus the mighty God. See Pſal. 15.4.