Proverbs 22:25
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
In Context
24Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; and with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:
26Be thou not one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts:
Cross References
Proverbs 4:14Enter not into the path of the wicked, and walk not in the way of evil men.
1 Corinthians 15:33Be not deceived: Evil company doth corrupt good manners.
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 →