32:9 It is not the aged 1 who are wise,
nor old men who understand what is right.
35:11 who teaches us 2 more than 3 the wild animals of the earth,
and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
1 tn The MT has “the great” or “the many,” meaning great in years according to the parallelism.
2 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).
3 tn Some would render this “teaches us by the beasts.” But Elihu is stressing the unique privilege humans have.