Proverbs 22:25
lest thou learn this ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
In Context
24Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger, and thou shall not go with a wrathful man,
26Be thou not one of those who strike hands, [or] of those who are sureties for debts.
Cross References
Proverbs 4:14Enter not into the path of the wicked, and walk not in the way of evil men.
1 Corinthians 15:33Be not led astray. Evil associations corrupt good habits.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:25-26
Prudential Maxims. 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. Here is, 1. A good caution against being intimate with a passionate man. It is the law of friendship that we accommodate ourselves to our friends and be ready to serve them, and therefore we ought to be wise and wary in the choice of a friend, that we come not under the sacred tie to any one whom it would be our folly to accommodate ourselves to. Thought we… Read the whole commentary →