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Proverbs 22:24–25

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Saying 3

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

do not associate with one easily angered,

25or you may learn their ways

and get yourself ensnared.p

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Cross references

  1. p1 Co 15:33

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Make no friendship with a man given to anger,

nor go with a wrathful man,

lest you learn his ways

and entangle yourself in a snare.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Don’t make friends with an angry person,

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

or you will learn his ways

and entangle yourself in a snare.

NLTNew Living Translation

Don’t befriend angry people

or associate with hot-tempered people,

or you will learn to be like them

and endanger your soul.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Do not befriend an owner of anger,

and with a man of wrath you shall not associate;

lest you learn his way

and become entangled in a snare to yourself.

KJV 1900King James Version

Make no friendship with an angry man;

And with a furious man thou shalt not go:

Lest thou learn his ways,

And get a snare to thy soul.