Proverbs 22:25
Least thou learne his wayes, and receiue destruction to thy soule.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
In Context
24Make no friendship with an angrie man, neither goe with the furious man,
26Be not thou of them that touch the hand, nor among them that are suretie for debts.
Cross References
Proverbs 4:14Enter not into the way of the wicked, and walke not in the way of euill men.
1 Corinthians 15:33Be not deceiued: euill speakings corrupt good maners.
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 →