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11 who teaches us[a] more than[b] the wild animals of the earth,
and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

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Footnotes

  1. Job 35:11 tn The form in the text, the Piel participle from אָלַף (ʾalaf, “teach”) is written in a contracted form; the full form is מְאַלְּפֵנוּ (meʾallefenu).
  2. Job 35:11 tn Some would render this “teaches us by the beasts.” But Elihu is stressing the unique privilege humans have.

11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

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11 Who (A)teaches us more than the beasts of the earth,
And makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?’

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