Add parallel Print Page Options

24 Do not make friends with an angry person,[a]
and do not associate with a wrathful person,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:24 tn Heb “possessor of anger.” This expression is an idiom for “wrathful person” or “an angry person” (cf. NAB “a hotheaded man”; NLT “short-tempered people”). These are people characterized by anger, meaning the anger is not a rare occurrence with them.

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

Read full chapter

24 Make no friendship with a man given to anger,
    nor go with a wrathful man,

Read full chapter