Job 35:11
Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, || Indeed, He makes us wiser than the bird of the heavens.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
In Context
10And none said, Where [is] God my Maker? Giving songs in the night,
12There they cry, and He does not answer, || Because of the pride of evildoers.
Cross References
Genesis 1:26And God says, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over [the] fish of the sea, and over [the] bird of the heavens, and over livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.”
Job 32:8Surely a spirit is in man, || And the breath of the Mighty One || Causes them to understand.
Psalms 94:12O the blessedness of the man || Whom You instruct, O YAH, || And teach him out of Your law,
Matthew Henry on Job 35:10-14
9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. 10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night; 11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven? 12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men. 13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. Elihu here returns an answer to another word that Job had said, which,… Read the whole commentary →