19 A hot-tempered person must pay the penalty;
    rescue them, and 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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Saying 3

24 Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person,
    do not associate with one easily angered,
25 or you may learn their ways
    and get yourself ensnared.(A)

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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 stirs up conflict,
    and a hot-tempered person commits many sins.(A)

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

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