119:12 You deserve praise, 1 O Lord!
Teach me your statutes!
119:26 I told you about my ways 2 and you answered me.
Teach me your statutes!
34:32 Teach me what I cannot see. 3
If I have done evil, I will do so no more.’
35:11 who teaches us 4 more than 5 the wild animals of the earth,
and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
36:22 Indeed, God is exalted in his power;
who is a teacher 6 like him?
1 tn Heb “[are] blessed.”
2 tn Heb “my ways I proclaimed.”
3 tn Heb “what I do not see,” more specifically, “apart from [that which] I see.”
4 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).
5 tn Some would render this “teaches us by the beasts.” But Elihu is stressing the unique privilege humans have.
6 tn The word מוֹרֶה (moreh) is the Hiphil participle from יָרַה (yarah). It is related to the noun תּוֹרָה (torah, “what is taught” i.e., the law).
7 sn Luke does not mention specific texts here, but it is likely that many of the scriptures he mentioned elsewhere in Luke-Acts would have been among those he had in mind.