Proverbs 22:25 (BSB)

or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

From Proverbs 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 22:25

• 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 22:25: Lest thou learn his ways,.... And be as wrathful and furious, as quarrelsome and contentious, as he is. Evil works and ways are soon learned; men are more ready to imitate what is evil than what is good: Joseph learned to swear in Pharaoh's court; and the Israelites learned the works of the Heathen, among whom they were mingled; "evil communications corrupt good manners", Co1 15:33.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 22:25: a snare . . . soul--The unsuspecting are often misled by bad company.
• 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.