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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19 Angry people must pay the penalty;
    if you rescue them, then you will have to do it again.

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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

24 Don’t befriend people controlled by anger;
    don’t associate with hot-tempered people;
25     otherwise, you will learn their ways
    and become trapped.

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

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22 Angry people stir up conflict;
    hotheads cause much offense.

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