Text -- Job 35:11 (NET)

35:11 who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 35:11

¹ tn The form in the text, the Piel participle from אָלַף (’alaf, “teach”) is written in a contracted form; the full form is מְאַלְּפֵנוּ (mÿ’allÿfenu).

² tn Some would render this “teaches us by the beasts.” But Elihu is stressing the unique privilege humans have.