Job 35:11
Good News Translation
They don't turn to God, who makes us wise, wiser than any animal or bird.

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.

Job 32:8 But, as I see, there is a spirit in men, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding.

Genesis 1:26 And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Psalm 94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law.

Context
Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice
10And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night? 11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.12There shall they cry, and he will not hear, because of the pride of evil men.…
Cross References
Matthew 6:26
Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?

Job 21:22
Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?

Job 36:22
Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like him among the lawgivers.

Psalm 94:10
He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: he that teacheth man knowledge?

Psalm 94:12
Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law.

Jeremiah 32:33
And they have turned their backs to me, and not their faces: when I taught them early in the morning, and instructed them, and they would not hearken to receive instruction.

Job 35:10
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