Proverbs 22:25
פֶּן ־ תֶּאֱלַף ארחתו וְלָקַחְתָּ מוֹקֵשׁ לְנַפְשֶֽׁךָ ׃
Hebrew Tanakh (Original)
In The King James Version
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
In Context
24אַל ־ תִּתְרַע אֶת ־ בַּעַל אָף וְאֶת ־ אִישׁ חֵמוֹת לֹא תָבֽוֹא ׃
26אַל ־ תְּהִי בְתֹֽקְעֵי ־ כָף בַּעֹרְבִים מַשָּׁאֽוֹת ׃
Cross References
Proverbs 4:14בְּאֹרַח רְשָׁעִים אַל ־ תָּבֹא וְאַל ־ תְּאַשֵּׁר בְּדֶרֶךְ רָעִֽים ׃
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 →