Proverbs 22:24
ContextNET © | Do not make friends with an angry person, 1 and do not associate with a wrathful person, |
NIV © | Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man, do not associate with one easily angered, |
NASB © | Do not associate with a man given to anger; Or go with a hot-tempered man, |
NLT © | Keep away from angry, short–tempered people, |
MSG © | Don't hang out with angry people; don't keep company with hotheads. |
BBE © | Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man: |
NRSV © | Make no friends with those given to anger, and do not associate with hotheads, |
NKJV © | Make no friendship with an angry man, And with a furious man do not go, |
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NET © [draft] ITL | |
NET © | Do not make friends with an angry person, 1 and do not associate with a wrathful person, |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “possessor of anger.” This expression is an idiom for “wrathful person” or “an angry person” (cf. NAB “a hotheaded man”; NLT “short-tempered people”). These are people characterized by anger, meaning the anger is not a rare occurrence with them. |