Proverbs 22:24 (BSB)

Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,

From Proverbs 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 22:24

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 22:24-25: Here is, 1. A good caution against being intimate with a passionate man. It is the law of friendship that we accommodate ourselves to our friends and be ready to serve them, and therefore we ought to be wise and wary in the choice of a friend, that we come not under the sacred tie to any one whom it would be our folly to accommodate ourselves to.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 22:24: Make no friendship with an angry man,.... Do not associate with him; contract not a familiarity with him; make him not a companion; take him not into an intimacy, or use him as a particular friend and acquaintance: a man should be courteous, and carry it civilly to all men; but he should take care whom he admits as his bosom friend; he should be...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 22:24: Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: (o) Have nothing to do with him that is not able to rule his affections: for he would hurt you by his evil conversation.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 22:24-25: Pro 22:24-25 Another tetrastich follows: 24 Have no intercourse with an angry man, And with a furious man go thou not; 25 Lest thou adopt his ways, And bring destruction upon thy soul. The Piel רעה, Jdg 14:20, signifies to make or choose any one as a friend or companion (רעה, רע); the Hithpa. התרעה (cf.