Proverbs 22:25
Lest perhaps thou learn his ways, and take scandal to thy soul.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
In Context
24Be not a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man:
26Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:
Cross References
Proverbs 4:14Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.
1 Corinthians 15:33Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners.
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 →