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The Book of Proverbs, Chapters 15–31 is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

who loves (see 8:17), not “friend” (see 14:20). It signifies the friend’s recognition of the inherent worth and dignity of the one with whom he desires to be with at all times in a reciprocal relationship, even in extreme anguish and suffering. The true character of love expresses itself by substantive, unselfish action in adversity, not by outward kisses.101 Ambiguous and could also be glossed “but” (cf. 16:33; 17:3). The parallels both combine one’s reciprocal advantage in having both a friend
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