Job 12:7
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the
fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
a. NLT: “Just ask the animals, and they will teach you. Ask the birds
of the sky, and they will tell you.
b. NIV: “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in
the sky, and they will tell you;
c. YLT: And yet, ask, I pray thee, One of the beasts,
and it doth shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to thee.
d. Amplified Bible Classic: For ask now the animals, and they will
teach you [that God does not deal with His creatures according to their character];
ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
e. Septuagint: But ask now the beasts, if they may speak to thee; and
the birds of the air, if they may declare to thee.
f. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/Writings: Please ask the Behemoth, however,
and it will teach you; the bird of the heavens, and it will tell you
1. “But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee…”
a. But [199 * 'uwlam] [Strong: apparently
a variation of 194; however or on the contrary:--as for, but, howbeit, in
very deed, surely, truly, wherefore.]
b. ask [7592 * sha'al; or shael]
[Strong: a primitive root; to inquire; by implication, to request; by
extension, to demand:--ask (counsel, on), beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult,
demand, desire, X earnestly, enquire, + greet, obtain leave, lend, pray,
request, require, + salute, X straitly, X surely, wish.]
c. the beasts [929 * bhemah] [Strong: from an unused root (probably
meaning to be mute); properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or
animal (often collective):--beast, cattle.]
d. and they shall teach thee [3384
* yarah; yara;] [Strong: a primitive root; properly, to flow as water (i.e. to
rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot);
figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach:--(+) archer,
cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach(-er,-ing), through.]
2. “…and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell.”
a. and the fowls [5775 * `owph]
[Strong: from 5774; a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as
covering with wings), often collectively:--bird, that flieth, flying, fowl.]
b. of the air [8064 * shamayim]
[Strong: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}; 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):--air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).]
c. they shall tell [5046 * nagad]
[Strong: a primitive root; properly, to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite;
by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by
word of mouth to one present); specifically, to expose, predict, explain,
praise:--bewray, X certainly, certify, declare(-ing), denounce, expound, X
fully, messenger, plainly, profess, rehearse, report, shew (forth), speak, X
surely, tell, utter.]
1). This is a verse that exemplifies
the dominion over the earth that God gave to man. It is a wonderful example of
how God has designed the earth and its creatures to teach and instruct man.
a). Genesis 1:26-28 And 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 air, and over the cattle,
and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth.
1:27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
1:28 And God blessed them, and God
said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue
it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
2). What we are going to encounter
in this verse is a term called biomimicry. Biomimicry, is a term that means man
is mimicking what the created order does to come up with things that will be a
blessing to mankind. What the earliest example of this in human history I have
no idea. Probably the most well known example of biomimicry is velcro After a
hunting trip in the Alps in 1941, Swiss engineer George de Mestral’s dog was
covered in burdock burrs. Mestral put one under his microscope and discovered a
simple design of hooks that nimbly attached to fur and socks. After years of
experimentation, he invented Velcro — and earned U.S. Patent 2,717,437 in
October 1952. http://www.bloomberg.com/slideshow/2013-08-18/14-smart-inventions-inspired-by-nature-biomimicry.html#slide7
The fascinating this is though man has only recently discovered biomimicry, as
this verse reveals, God has wanted mankind to see it for over 3000 years.
3). I have listed only a few here
but there are perhaps hundreds of example and eventually as science continues
to study the animal and plant kingdoms there will be thousands and hundreds of
thousands of examples.
a). National Geographic 8/2011 A
test made from horseshoe crabs just might have saved your life: About 500,000
horseshoe crabs are collected annually along the U.S. East Coast under
interstate regulations. In a laboratory, blood is drawn from the crab’s
primitive equivalent of a heart.[About 20 percent of each crab’s blood is
collected before it is returned to the water.]The live crabs are returned to
the sea. The estimated mortality rate is 15 percent. The blood’s blue color
comes from copper in its oxygen-carrying protein, hemocyanin—akin to the iron-based
hemoglobin in humans. BANKING ON BLUE
BLOOD: It’s blue, comes from a creature more ancient than dinosaurs, and
saves countless human lives. It’s the blood of horseshoe crabs, and for decades
it’s proved vital to biomedical companies that must screen vaccines, IV fluids,
and medical devices for bacteria that can be fatal in our bloodstream. Thanks,
to proteins in cells that act like a primitive immune system, the crabs’ blood
coagulates instantly when it touches pathogens like E. coli and Salmonella. So
sensitive is the test derived from the proteins that it can detect amounts as
slight as one part per trillion. That’s like one grain of sugar in an
Olympic-size swimming pool, says John Dubczak of test producer Charles River,
Endosafe. Now Princeton University researchers are looking at another approach
using synthetic molecules that replicate antimicrobial peptides found on the
skin of African clawed frogs. That would take some of the heat off the
horseshoe crabs—if it can match the sensitivity of their millions-year-old
strategy. –Luna Shyr
b). “One of the world’s most
striking examples of biomimicry solved a maddening problem in Japan. The
country’s high-speed trains, which carry more than eight billion passengers a
year, are noted for their comfort, safety and efficiency, but for years they
were notorious for causing the equivalent of a sonic boom when they exited
Japan’s ubiquitous train tunnels, violating noise-polution standsrds and
steeing people’s teeth on edge. The problem was on of physics: When a train
entered a tunnel, its bullet shaped nose compressed the air into something like
a tidal wave; when the wave exited the tunnel, it expanded so rapidly it set
off what is known as a “tunnel boom.” Those dynamics led Eiji Nakatsu, a birder
who also happened to be the chief engineer for the West Japan Railway Company,
to consider the kingfisher, a bird that can plunge form air into water with
hardly a splash. By firing bullets of various shapes into a pipe, his engineers
found that one shaped like the bird’s beak parted the air instead of
compressing it. (Separately, they designed a quieter pantograph, or circuit
collector, based on the noise-absorbing properties of owl feathers.) After
trains fronted with the equivalent of a kingfisher bill went into service in
1997, Japan became a quieter place. T.A. Frail.”
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