Proverbs 22:25
or you will learn his ways 1 and you will take bait for your soul. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
In Context
24Do not make a friend of someone who is ruled by anger 1 and you must not go with one who rages, 1
26Do not be one who strikes hands in making a pledge, 1 or who puts up security for debts. 1
Cross References
Proverbs 4:14Do not follow the path of the wicked 1 and do not go along the way of those who do evil. 1
1 Corinthians 15:33Be not deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”
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 →