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For the modern mind, the book’s cultural setting seems far removed from the twenty-first century. Proverbs puts a high priority on tradition and age, while the modern mind prizes change and youth. For Christians, Proverbs seems irrelevant. For the translator, Proverbs defies translations. In the second part of his two-volume commentary, Waltke confronts these exegetical and interpretive...

LORD” in 15:16a, suggests the omission of the LORD is intentional. Perhaps he is uniquely omitted in this one verse of the sub-unit because he seems absent before he turns the morally upside down world right side up in the immediate or remote future (cf. 1 Sam. 2:3–10; Ps. 37:16–17; Lk 1:51–53; 1 Tim. 4:8). 9 This concluding sub unit’s frame again carefully balances the interplay between divine activity in directing human initiative (see 16:1–9), giving God “not only the last word but the soundest.”57
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