“who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’”
— WEB
Job 35:11
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“Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?”
— KJV
“Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, And maketh us wiser than the birds of the heavens?”
— ASV
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Commentary
Man's spirit, which distinguishes him from the brute, is the strongest proof of God's beneficence; by the use of it we may understand that God is the Almighty helper of all sufferers who humbly seek Him; and that they err who do not so seek Him. fowls--(see on Job 28:21).
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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