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Job 32:7-8
New English Translation
Job 32:7-8
New English Translation
7 I said to myself, ‘Age[a] should speak,[b]
and length of years[c] should make wisdom known.’
8 But it is a spirit in people,
the breath[d] of the Almighty,
that makes them understand.
Footnotes
- Job 32:7 tn Heb “days.”
- Job 32:7 tn The imperfect here is to be classified as an obligatory imperfect.
- Job 32:7 tn Heb “abundance of years.”
- Job 32:8 tn This is the word נְשָׁמָה (neshamah, “breath”); according to Gen 2:7 it was breathed into Adam to make him a living person (“soul”). With that divine impartation came this spiritual understanding. Some commentators identify the רוּחַ (ruakh) in the first line as the Spirit of God; this “breath” would then be the human spirit. Whether Elihu knew that much, however, is hard to prove.
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