Proverbs 22:25
Lest you learn his ways, and get a snare to your soul.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
In Context
24Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man you shall not go:
26Be not you one of them that shake hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
Cross References
Proverbs 4:14Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
1 Corinthians 15:33Be not deceived: evil communications 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 →