Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,
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.
Commenting on Proverbs 22:24-25
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...
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.