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 A violent-tempered person will pay the penalty;
    if you effect a rescue, you will only have to do it again.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 19.19 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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 Make no friends with those given to anger,
    and do not associate with hotheads,
25 lest you learn their ways
    and entangle yourself in a snare.

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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 One given to anger stirs up strife,
    and the hothead causes much transgression.(A)

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