Job 12:7 New English Translation

⁷“But now, ask the animals and they^[b] will teach you,
or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.

Job 12:7 sn As J. E. Hartley (Job [NICOT], 216) observes, in this section Job argues that respected tradition “must not be accepted uncritically.”
Job 12:7 tn The singular verb is used here with the plural collective subject (see GKC 464 §145.k).

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