35:11 who teaches us 1 more than 2 the wild animals of the earth,
and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
1 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).
2 tn Some would render this “teaches us by the beasts.” But Elihu is stressing the unique privilege humans have.