Proverbs 22:24

24 Don't be a friend with anyone who burns with anger. Don't go around with a person who gets angry easily.

Proverbs 22:24 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 22:24

Make no friendship with an angry man
Do not associate with him; contract not a familiarity with him; make him not a companion; take him not into an intimacy, or use him as a particular friend and acquaintance: a man should be courteous, and carry it civilly to all men; but he should take care whom he admits as his bosom friend; he should be cautious in his choice of a familiar friend, and not receive any; and, among the rest, avoid an angry and passionate man, one who is much given to passion himself, and stirs it up in others; for there can be no lasting peace and pleasure in such a man's company and conversation; and with a furious man thou shall not go:
not take a walk with him, much less a journey; or shall not be frequently together. It may be rendered, "unto a man of wraths", or of great wrath and "fury, thou shall not come"; not enter into his house, nor seek his company, and court his conversation, which rather should be shunned.

Proverbs 22:24 In-Context

22 Don't take advantage of poor people just because they are poor. Don't beat down those who are in need by taking them to court.
23 The LORD will stand up for them in court. He will take back the stolen goods from those who have robbed them.
24 Don't be a friend with anyone who burns with anger. Don't go around with a person who gets angry easily.
25 You might learn his habits. And then you will be trapped by them.
26 Don't agree to pay for what someone else owes.
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