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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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  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 teaches(A) us(B) more than he teaches[a] the beasts of the earth
    and makes us wiser than[b] the birds in the sky?’

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  1. Job 35:11 Or night, / 11 who teaches us by
  2. Job 35:11 Or us wise by