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 Hot-tempered people must pay the penalty.
    If you rescue them once, 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 angry people
    or associate with hot-tempered people,
25 or you will learn to be like them
    and endanger your soul.

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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 An angry person starts fights;
    a hot-tempered person commits all kinds of sin.

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