Proverbs 22:25
◄  Proverbs 22:25  ►
New International Version (©2011)
or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.

New Living Translation (©2007)
or you will learn to be like them and endanger your soul.

English Standard Version (©2001)
lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Or you will learn his ways And find a snare for yourself.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
or you will learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

International Standard Version (©2012)
or you may learn his ways and find yourself caught in a trap.

NET Bible (©2006)
lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Lest you learn his laws and you find a scandal to your soul.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
or you will learn his ways and set a trap for yourself.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Lest you learn his ways, and get a snare to your soul.

American King James Version
Lest you learn his ways, and get a snare to your soul.

American Standard Version
Lest thou learn this ways, And get a snare to thy soul.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lest perhaps thou learn his ways, and take scandal to thy soul.

Darby Bible Translation
lest thou learn his paths, and get a snare to thy soul.

English Revised Version
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

Webster's Bible Translation
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

World English Bible
lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.

Young's Literal Translation
Lest thou learn his paths, And have received a snare to thy soul.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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", 1 Corinthians 15:33. Many men, naturally mild and gentle, tenderhearted and compassionate, by being brought up among or conversing with bloodthirsty Papists, and imbibing their cruel notions and sentiments, have become fierce, and as furious persecutors of others;

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Geneva Study Bible

Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

25. a snare … soul-The unsuspecting are often misled by bad company.

Proverbs 22:25 Parallel Commentaries
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A Good Name More Desirable than Riches
…24Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man you shall not go: 25Lest you learn his ways, and get a snare to your soul. 26Be not you one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. …

1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character."
Deuteronomy 7:25 The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the LORD your God.