19 A man of great wrath will pay the penalty,
    for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.

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19 A person of great anger will suffer the penalty,
For if you rescue him, you will only have to do it again.

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24 Make no friendship with a man given to anger,
    nor go with a wrathful man,
25 lest you learn his ways
    and entangle yourself in a snare.

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24 Do not make friends with a person given to anger,
Or go with a (A)hot-tempered person,
25 Or you will (B)learn his ways
And [a]find a snare for yourself.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:25 Lit take

22 (A)A man of wrath stirs up strife,
    and one given to anger causes much transgression.

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22 An (A)angry person stirs up strife,
And a hot-tempered person abounds in wrongdoing.

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