Proverbs 22:25
or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
In Context
24Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,
26Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
Cross References
Proverbs 4:14Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.
1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
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 →