Proverbs 22:24–26

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.

26 Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge

or puts up security for debts;

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.

26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands,

Or of them that are sureties for debts.

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.

26 Don’t agree to guarantee another person’s debt

or put up security for someone else.

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.

26 Do not be one of those who shakes hands in a pledge,

One of those who is surety for debts;

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.

26 Don’t promise to pay what someone else owes,

and don’t guarantee anyone’s loan.

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.

26 Be thou not one of them that strike hands,

Or of them that are sureties for debts.

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.

26 Be not of them that strike hands, of them that are sureties for debts:

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. 

26 Do not be ⸤found⸥ among those who make deals with a handshake, 

among those who guarantee other people’s loans. 

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.

26 Don’t be one of those who enter agreements,

who put up security for loans.

24 Make no friends with those given to anger,

and do not associate with hotheads,

25 lest you learn their ways

and entangle yourself in a snare.

26 Do not be one of those who give pledges,

who become surety for debts.

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.

26 Do not be with those who give a pledge

by becoming surety.

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.

26 Don’t agree to pay for

what someone else owes.

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.

26 Do not be among those who give pledges,

Among those who become guarantors for debts.