Proverbs 22:25
New International Version
or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.

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

English Standard Version
lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

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

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

New King James Version
Lest you learn his ways And set a snare for your soul.

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

NASB 1995
Or you will learn his ways And find a snare for yourself.

NASB 1977
Lest you learn his ways, And find a snare for yourself.

Legacy Standard Bible
Lest you learn his ways And take on a snare against your soul.

Amplified Bible
Or you will learn his [undisciplined] ways And get yourself trapped [in a situation from which it is hard to escape].

Christian Standard Bible
or you will learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

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

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

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

Brenton Septuagint Translation
lest thou learn of his ways, and get snares to thy soul.

Contemporary English Version
You might turn out like them and get caught in a trap.

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

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

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

Good News Translation
You might learn their habits and not be able to change.

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
Lest thou learn his ways, And get a snare to thy soul.

Literal Standard Version
Lest you learn his paths, | And have received a snare to your soul.

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

New American Bible
Lest you learn their ways, and become ensnared.

NET Bible
lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

New Revised Standard Version
or you may learn their ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

New Heart English Bible
lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your 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.

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Context
Thirty Sayings of the Wise
24Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man, 25or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. 26Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.…

Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good character."

Deuteronomy 7:25
You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.


Treasury of Scripture

Lest you learn his ways, and get a snare to your soul.

Proverbs 13:20
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Psalm 106:35
But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

1 Corinthians 15:33
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

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(25) Lest thou . . . get a snare to thy soul--i.e., lose thy life.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
or
פֶּן־ (pen-)
Conjunction
Strong's 6435: Removal, lest

you may learn
תֶּאֱלַ֥ף (te·’ĕ·lap̄)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 502: To learn

his ways
אֹֽרְחֹתָ֑יו (’ō·rə·ḥō·ṯāw)
Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 734: A well-trodden road, a caravan

and entangle
וְלָקַחְתָּ֖ (wə·lā·qaḥ·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

yourself
לְנַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃ (lə·nap̄·še·ḵā)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

in a snare.
מוֹקֵ֣שׁ (mō·w·qêš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4170: A bait or lure, a snare


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