Proverbs 22:25
in case you learn to be like them and make a mess of your life.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
In Context
24Don't make friends with someone who gets upset easily; don't associate with angry people,
26Don't shake hands and guarantee someone's debt,
Cross References
Proverbs 4:14Don't go the way of the wicked or follow the example of those who do evil.
1 Corinthians 15:33Don't be fooled: “Bad company ruins 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 →