Proverbs 22:10,24-25 - Compare All Versions

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Kick out the troublemakers and things will quiet down; you need a break from bickering and griping!

Don’t hang out with angry people; don’t keep company with hotheads. Bad temper is contagious— don’t get infected.

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; Yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

Make no friendship with an angry man; And with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, And get a snare to thy soul.

Drive out the scoffer, and contention will go out, Even strife and dishonor will cease.

Do not associate with a man given to anger; Or go with a hot-tempered man, Or you will learn his ways And find a snare for yourself.

Get rid of the one who makes fun of wisdom. Then fighting, quarrels, and insults will stop.

Don’t make friends with quick-tempered people or spend time with those who have bad tempers. If you do, you will be like them. Then you will be in real danger.

Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.

Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, And get a snare to thy soul.

Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended.

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

Cast out the scoffer, and contention will leave; Yes, strife and reproach will cease.

Make no friendship with an angry man, And with a furious man do not go, Lest you learn his ways And set a snare for your soul.

Drive out the scoffer, and contention will go away; Even strife and dishonor will cease.

¶Do not even associate with a man given to angry outbursts; Or go [along] with a hot-tempered man, Or you will learn his [undisciplined] ways And get yourself trapped [in a situation from which it is hard to escape].

Throw out the mocker, and fighting goes, too. Quarrels and insults will disappear.

Don’t befriend angry people or associate with hot-tempered people, or you will learn to be like them and endanger your soul.

Say goodbye to a troublemaker and you’ll say goodbye to quarrels, strife, tension, and arguments, for a troublemaker traffics in shame.

Walk away from an angry man or you’ll embrace a snare in your soul by becoming bad-tempered just like him.

Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.