Proverbs 28:4

"They that forsake the law praise the wicked; But such as keep the law contend with them."

The mention of the law of Moses here is another example of the truth that every book of the Old Testament after the Pentateuch is written in the shadow of the Five Books of Moses. There is no ground whatever in this for referring the authorship of Proverbs to the Greek period, as Toy thought;[8] because there were many other periods in Jewish history when they, in the general sense, forsook the law of Moses. In fact, the first generation following the death of Joshua and his contemporaries is just as good as any other example of Israel's apostasy. There were literally dozens of them.