Proverbs 22:25

Lest thou learn his orkhot (ways), 1 and take a mokesh (snare) for thy nefesh. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

In Context

24Make no friendship with a ba'al af (angry man), 1 and with an ish chemot (man of wrath) thou shalt not go, 1

26Be not thou one of them that shake hands in a pledge, 1 or of them that are collateral for masha'ot (debts, loans). 1

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Cross References

Proverbs 4:14Enter not into the orach resha'im, 1 and go not on the derech ra'im (road of the wicked). 1

1 Corinthians 15:33Do not fall under a delusion. “Bad chavrusashaft (association, influence or hashpa'ah) corrupts good midos.”

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 →

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