◄ Proverbs 22:24 ►
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Good News Translation
Don't make friends with people who have hot, violent tempers.

New Revised Standard Version
Make no friends with those given to anger, and do not associate with hotheads,

Contemporary English Version
Don't make friends with anyone who has a bad temper.

New American Bible
Do not be friendly with hotheads, nor associate with the wrathful,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be not a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Be not a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man:

Proverbs 21:24 The proud and the arrogant is called ignorant, who in anger worketh pride.

Proverbs 29:22 A passionate man provoketh quarrels: and he that is easily stirred up to wrath, shall be more prone to sin.

2 Corinthians 6:14-17 Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? . . .

Context
Thirty Sayings of the Wise
…23Because the Lord will judge his cause: and will afflict them that have afflicted his soul. 24Be not a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man:25Lest perhaps thou learn his ways, and take scandal to thy soul.…
Cross References
Proverbs 15:18
A passionate man stirreth up strifes: he that is patient appeaseth those that are stirred up.

Proverbs 29:22
A passionate man provoketh quarrels: and he that is easily stirred up to wrath, shall be more prone to sin.

Proverbs 22:23
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