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Elihu Recalls God’s Justice

Job 35:11

In 11 translations

BSB
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
KJV
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
WEB
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
ASV
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, And maketh us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
LSV
Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, || Indeed, He makes us wiser than the bird of the heavens.
YLT
Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'
DBY
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens?
DRC
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.
GNV
Which teacheth vs more then the beastes of the earth, and giueth vs more wisdome then the foules of the heauen.
JPS
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?'
LXXE
who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky?

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
מַ֭לְּפֵנוּ מִבַּהֲמ֣וֹת אָ֑רֶץ וּמֵע֖וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֣יִם יְחַכְּמֵֽנוּ׃
LXX-Br
ὁ διορίζων με ἀπὸ τετραπόδων γῆς, ἀπὸ δὲ πετεινῶν οὐρανοῦ;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 94:12Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
  • Job 36:22Behold, God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like Him?
  • Job 32:8But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
  • Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
  • Genesis 1:26Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

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