Job 12:2

Section 1: SARCASTIC COMMENDATION OF THAT WISDOM WHICH FAILS TO RECOGNIZE THE SECURITY OF THE WICKED, Job 12:2-12.

a. Piety in straits is an object of derision; while robbers (such as the Sabeans and Chaldaeans) are at peace, Job 12:2-6.

2. Wisdom shall die with you The people of the East take great pleasure in irony, and some of their satirical sayings are very cutting. When a sage intimates that he has superior wisdom, of when he is disposed to rally another for his meagre attainments, he says, “Yes, yes; you are the man! Your wisdom is like the sea.… When you die, whither will wisdom go!… When gone, alas! what will become of wisdom?” ROBERTS’S Oriental Illustrations. Moschus thus laments the death of Bion:

“Bion, the swain, and all with him, is dead;

Song lives no more, the Doric muse is fled.”