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Job 35

Job 35:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Who teacheth
'alph (Hebrew #502)
hence, to learn (and causatively to teach)
KJV usage: learn, teach, utter.
Pronounce: aw-lof'
Origin: a primitive root, to associate with
us more than the beasts
bhemah (Hebrew #929)
properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)
KJV usage: beast, cattle.
Pronounce: be-hay-maw'
Origin: from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute)
of the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, and maketh us wiser
chakam (Hebrew #2449)
a primitive root, to be wise (in mind, word or act)
KJV usage: X exceeding, teach wisdom, be (make self, shew self) wise, deal (never so) wisely, make wiser.
Pronounce: khaw-kam'
than the fowls
`owph (Hebrew #5775)
a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
KJV usage: bird, that flieth, flying, fowl.
Pronounce: ofe
Origin: from 5774
of heaven
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
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Beast,
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Fowl,
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Job 32:8• 8But there is a spirit which is in man; and the breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding. (Job 32:8)
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Gen. 1:26• 26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth. (Gen. 1:26)
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Gen. 2:7• 7And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul. (Gen. 2:7)
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Psa. 94:12• 12Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jah, and whom thou teachest out of thy law; (Psa. 94:12)
• And yet are we not immeasurably above the beasts? God teaches us more than they can know. Yes, He giveth songs in the night of trial. Indifference to all this is the heart-breaking fact that, “When they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful.” (“Job 32-37” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens?