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Proverbs 10-31. Anchor Bible 18B. By Michael V. Fox (Yale University Press, $60). This is the second volume of F.’s magisterial commentary on Proverbs and shows the same focus on philology and relationships with other biblical and Ancient Near Eastern wisdom that also characterized the first volume, In addition to the commentary itself, there are introductory essays on reading Proverbs as a collection, reading an ancient proverb itself, and the dating and social setting or the Proverb collection, and concluding essays on the growth of wisdom, ethics, revelation, and knowledge. There are eighty-nine pages of text-critical notes and sixty-three pages of bibliography. F. dates the proverbs in chapters 10-31 to the time of the monarchy and shows that they come from a royalist perspective. The king provides social stability, justice, and peace, and the king is assumed to be inherently just, unless contaminated by the dross of unworthy servants. Ralph W. Klein