Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 9:12

12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may a declare it, for what the land perisheth, and is burnt up like a wilderness, that none passeth through.

viz. The ground of all these evils, q. d. Is there not a wise man among you, that will concern himself, and search into the cause of all these threatned Judgments, which hath provoked God to so great displeasure? See Hos. 14.9. It is a question that implies there is none, or very few that consider common Calamities in the causes of them, but rather say of Judgments it is a Chance, 1 Sam. 6.9.

Marginal references: Psal. 107.43.