12:7 “But now, ask the animals and they 2 will teach you,
or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.
[12:7] 1 sn As J. E. Hartley (Job [NICOT], 216) observes, in this section Job argues that respected tradition “must not be accepted uncritically.”
[12:7] 2 tn The singular verb is used here with the plural collective subject (see GKC 464 §145.k).
