Proverbs 22:25
lest thou learn of his ways, and get snares to thy soul.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
In Context
24Be not companion to a furious man; neither lodge with a passionate man:
26Become not surety from respect of a man's person.
Cross References
Proverbs 4:14Go not in the ways of the ungodly, neither covet the ways of transgressors.
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 →