Job has had enough of the condescension, and the (possibly) well-intentioned misfires from the people he calls his friends. He lets them have with a pretty significant bon mot. "Wisdom will die with you?" Wow. I'm filing that away for later use when I need to put someone in his place.
Job 12, is Job saying, "I knooooow." His friends did cover any new ground. They didn't discover any new species in their lectures to Job.
All that aside, Job correctly identifies God as the wheelman in what was happening to him. How could there be any other way? Job knew he was right before God. So he knew God was behind this. Why? That was the question, as opposed to whom. I take comfort that even in the not-knowing why, we can still know who. And if we know who, that's where peace can come from, albeit possibly a small amount.
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