Job 35:11
New International Version
who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?’

New Living Translation
Where is the one who makes us smarter than the animals and wiser than the birds of the sky?’

English Standard Version
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

Berean Standard Bible
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

King James Bible
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

New King James Version
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, And makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?’

New American Standard Bible
Who teaches us more than the animals of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

NASB 1995
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

NASB 1977
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

Legacy Standard Bible
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

Amplified Bible
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

Christian Standard Bible
who gives us more understanding than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky? ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
who gives us more understanding than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?”

American Standard Version
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, And maketh us wiser than the birds of the heavens?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
More than before the animal of the Earth and more than the bird of the air, he teaches us wisdom

Brenton Septuagint Translation
who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky?

Contemporary English Version
though he makes us wiser than animals or birds.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.

English Revised Version
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
who teaches us more than he teaches the animals of the earth, who makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?'

Good News Translation
They don't turn to God, who makes us wise, wiser than any animal or bird.

International Standard Version
who teaches us more than the earth's wild animals, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

JPS Tanakh 1917
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, And maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?'

Literal Standard Version
Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, | Indeed, He makes us wiser than the bird of the heavens.

Majority Standard Bible
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

New American Bible
Teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?”

NET Bible
who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

New Revised Standard Version
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

New Heart English Bible
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

Webster's Bible Translation
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

World English Bible
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Young's Literal Translation
Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'

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Context
Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice
10But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night, 11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’ 12There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.…

Cross References
Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns--and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Job 21:22
Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?

Job 36:22
Behold, God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like Him?

Psalm 94:10
He who admonishes the nations, does He not discipline? He who teaches man, does He lack knowledge?

Psalm 94:12
Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,

Jeremiah 32:33
They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.


Treasury of Scripture

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

Job 32:8
But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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Job 35
1. Comparison is not to be made with God,
6. because our good or evil cannot extend unto him
9. Many cry in their afflictions, but are not heard for lack of faith














(11) Who teacheth us.--Or it may be, Who teacheth us by, and maketh us wise by, &c. Then the sense will be that the oppression is so severe that the victims of it forget that God can give songs in the night, and that He has favoured men more than the beasts of the field, and that, as not one sparrow can fall to the ground without Him, so He has even numbered the hairs of those who are of more value to Him than many sparrows.

Verse 11. - Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven. Elihu probably alludes to Job's defence of his complaints as natural, like the instinctive cries of beasts and birds (Job 6:5). God, he says, has given to man a higher nature than he has bestowal on the brutes; and this nature should teach him to carry his griefs to God in a proper spirit- a spirit of faith, piety, humility, and resignation. If men cried to him in this spirit, they would obtain an answer. If they do not obtain an answer, it must be that the proper spirit is lacking (comp. James 4:3).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
who teaches us
מַ֭לְּפֵנוּ (mal·lə·p̄ê·nū)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's 502: To learn

more than the beasts
מִבַּהֲמ֣וֹת (mib·ba·hă·mō·wṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 929: A dumb beast, any large quadruped, animal

of the earth
אָ֑רֶץ (’ā·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

and makes us wiser
יְחַכְּמֵֽנוּ׃ (yə·ḥak·kə·mê·nū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common plural
Strong's 2449: To be wise

than the birds
וּמֵע֖וֹף (ū·mê·‘ō·wp̄)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5775: Flying creatures

of the air?’
הַשָּׁמַ֣יִם (haš·šā·ma·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky


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