Job 35:11

35:11 who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth,

and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’


tn The form in the text, the Piel participle from אָלַף (’alaf, “teach”) is written in a contracted form; the full form is מְאַלְּפֵנוּ (mÿallÿfenu).

tn Some would render this “teaches us by the beasts.” But Elihu is stressing the unique privilege humans have.