Proverbs 22:24

24 Don't make friends with quick-tempered people or spend time with those who have bad tempers.

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 Do not abuse poor people because they are poor, and do not take away the rights of the needy in court.
23 The Lord will defend them in court and will take the life of those who take away their rights.
24 Don't make friends with quick-tempered people or spend time with those who have bad tempers.
25 If you do, you will be like them. Then you will be in real danger.
26 Don't promise to pay what someone else owes, and don't guarantee anyone's loan.
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