24Do not make friends with a hot- tempered man, do not associate with one easily angered,


In Context

21 teaching you true and reliable words, so that you can give sound answers to him who sent you?

22 Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court,

23 for the Lord will take up their case and will plunder those who plunder them.

24 Do not make friends with a hot- tempered man, do not associate with one easily angered,

25 or you may learn his ways and get yourself ensnared.

26 Do not be a man who strikes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts;

Proverbs 22:24 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:24Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

22:24Be not a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

22:24Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:24Make no friendship with an angry man, and go not with a furious man;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

22:24Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; and with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:24Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:24Don't befriend a hot-tempered man, and don't associate with one who harbors anger:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

22:24Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:24Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man you shall not go: