for the same word is here used; he concluded that God, who saw all the wickedness of his heart, the workings and reasonings of his mind, which were so vain and foolish, could esteem him no other than as a beast; so the Targum,"as a beast I am accounted with thee:''the words may be rendered, "I was the veriest beast before thee"; there being no note of similitude in the text; the word for "beast" being in the plural number, may be used for a superlative; Plautus uses the word "bellua", beast, for a stupid man.
eda al "nescivi", V. L. "non cognoscebam", Pagninus, Montanus; "nec sciebam", Piscator; "non noveram", Cocceius. Kme "apud te", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, &c. Trinum. Act. 4. Sc. 2. v.