24 Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person,

do not associate with one easily angered,

25 or you may learn their ways

and get yourself ensnared.

24 Make no friendship with an angry man;

And with a furious man thou shalt not go:

25 Lest thou learn his ways,

And get a snare to thy soul.

24 Don’t befriend angry people

or associate with hot-tempered people,

25 or you will learn to be like them

and endanger your soul.

24 Make no friendship with an angry man,

And with a furious man do not go,

25 Lest you learn his ways

And set a snare for your soul.

24 Don’t make friends with quick-tempered people

or spend time with those who have bad tempers.

25 If you do, you will be like them.

Then you will be in real danger.

24 Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger;

And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:

25 Lest thou learn his ways,

And get a snare to thy soul.

24 Make no friendship with an angry man, and go not with a furious man; 25 lest thou learn his paths, and get a snare to thy soul.

24 Do not be a friend of one who has a bad temper, 

and never keep company with a hothead, 

25 or you will learn his ways 

and set a trap for yourself. 

24 Don’t make friends with an angry man,

and don’t be a companion of a hot-tempered man,

25 or you will learn his ways

and entangle yourself in a snare.

24 Make no friends with those given to anger,

and do not associate with hotheads,

25 or you may learn their ways

and entangle yourself in a snare.

24 Do not befriend an owner of anger,

and with a man of wrath you shall not associate;

25 lest you learn his way

and become entangled in a snare to yourself.

24 Don’t be a friend with anyone who burns with anger.

Don’t go around with a person who gets angry easily.

25 You might learn his habits.

And then you will be trapped by them.

24 Do not associate with a man given to anger;

Or go with a hot-tempered man,

25 Or you will learn his ways

And find a snare for yourself.