1, Notice wisdom literature isn't always very cheery.

2, I mentioned Sirach and these other wisdom literature that mentioned the poor.

3, That's what a lot of wisdom literature in the Bible also looks like folk wisdom.

4, A lot of wisdom literature is sort of like, life's a bitch so just enjoy it while you can, and that's where you get some of the sayings out of Job and the Proverbs.

5, These are wisdom sayings,and this is wisdom literature, so in the Jewish scripture you have whole books that are basically wisdom literature,and scholars will use that term.

6, Since then, some scholars began to adopt didactic literature instead of wisdom literature.

7, One of the things that James is,the letter of James is a representation of typical Jewish wisdom literature.

8, You get it also in Job,look at Job,it's before Psalms,Job 14:1 Job is also one version of wisdom literature.

9, Now,with that in mind, all these other kinds of wisdom literature, turn to James and look at chapter 3 of James.