Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
Concerning Edom. A distinct prophecy; copied in part from Obadiah, but with the freedom of one inspired himself, and foretelling a later calamity. Obadiah's was fulfilled probably in Sennacherib's time (cf. Isaiah 34:5; Amos 1:11); Jeremiah's about the same time as his preceding prophecies (Jeremiah 49:12; Ezekiel 25:12.)
Is wisdom no more in Teman? - for which the Arabs and the people of Teman (a city of Edom), in particular, were famed (Genesis 36:15; 1 Kings 4:30; see Job, everywhere; Obadiah 1:8).
Vanished - literally, poured out - i:e., exhausted, (cf. Isaiah 19:3, margin) (Maurer.) Or, as the kindred Ethiopic word means, worn out (Ludovicus de Dieu).