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19 People with quick tempers will have to pay for it.
If you ·help them out once [rescue them], you will 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 Don’t make friends with ·quick-tempered people [people controlled by anger]
    or ·spend time [associate] with those who have bad tempers.
25 If you do, you will ·be like them [learn their ways].
    Then you will ·be in real danger [L get yourself trapped].

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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 An angry person ·causes trouble [stirs up conflict];
a person with ·a quick temper [wrath] sins a lot.

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

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