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11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth
    and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’(A)

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12 Happy are those whom you discipline, O Lord,
    and whom you teach out of your law,(A)

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22 See, God is exalted in his power;
    who is a teacher like him?

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But truly it is the spirit in a mortal,
    the breath of the Almighty[a] that makes for understanding.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 32.8 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground[a] and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.(A)

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  1. 2.7 In Heb the word for ground resembles the word for man

26 Then God said, “Let us make humans[a] in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the wild animals of the earth[b] and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1.26 Heb adam
  2. 1.26 Syr: Heb and over all the earth