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Job 35:10-12
New English Translation
Job 35:10-12
New English Translation
10 But no one says, ‘Where is God, my Creator,
who gives songs in the night,[a]
11 who teaches us[b] more than[c] the wild animals of the earth,
and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
12 Then[d] they cry out—but he does not answer—
because of the arrogance of the wicked.
Footnotes
- Job 35:10 tn There have been several attempts to emend the line, none of which are particularly helpful or interesting. H. H. Rowley (Job [NCBC], 225) says, “It is a pity to rob Elihu of a poetic line when he creates one.”
- 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).
- Job 35:11 tn Some would render this “teaches us by the beasts.” But Elihu is stressing the unique privilege humans have.
- Job 35:12 tn The adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”) connects this verse to v. 11. “There” can be locative or temporal—and here it is temporal (= “then”).
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