Job 32:9

32:9 It is not the aged ¹  who are wise,

nor old men who understand what is right.

Job 35:11

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?’

[32:9]  ¹ tn The MT has “the great” or “the many,” meaning great in years according to the parallelism.

[35:11]  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).

[35:11]  ³ tn Some would render this “teaches us by the beasts.” But Elihu is stressing the unique privilege humans have.