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19 A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty,
    for if you rescue him, you must do it again.

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19 A hot-tempered person pays a penalty;
    if you rescue him, you will do it yet again.

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24 Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man,
    and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:
25 lest you learn his ways,
    and ensnare your soul.

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24 Do not befriend an owner[a] of anger,[b]
    and with a man of wrath you shall not associate;
25 lest you learn his way
    and become entangled in a snare to yourself.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:24 Or “master”
  2. Proverbs 22:24 Literally “nostril”
  3. Proverbs 22:25 Or “soul,” or “inner self”

22 An angry man stirs up strife,
    and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

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22 A man of anger will stir strife,
    and the owner of anger, much transgression.

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