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Job 35:11-13
New English Translation
Job 35:11-13
New English Translation
11 who teaches us[a] more than[b] the wild animals of the earth,
and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
12 Then[c] they cry out—but he does not answer—
because of the arrogance of the wicked.
13 Surely it is an empty cry[d]—God does not hear it;
the Almighty does not take notice of it.
Footnotes
- Job 35:11 tn The form in the text, the Piel participle from אָלַף (ʾalaf, “teach”) is written in a contracted form; the full form is מְאַלְּפֵנוּ (meʾallefenu).
- Job 35:11 tn Some would render this “teaches us by the beasts.” But Elihu is stressing the unique privilege humans have.
- Job 35:12 tn The adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”) connects this verse to v. 11. “There” can be locative or temporal—and here it is temporal (= “then”).
- Job 35:13 tn Heb “surely—vanity, he does not hear.” The cry is an empty cry, not a prayer to God. Dhorme translates it, “It is a pure waste of words.”
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