Job 32:7-8


7 I said to myself, ‘Age
tn Heb “days.”
should speak,
tn The imperfect here is to be classified as an obligatory imperfect.

and length of years
tn Heb “abundance of years.”
should make wisdom known.’

8 But it is a spirit in people,
the breath
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.
of the Almighty,
that makes them understand.
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