Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man thou shall not go (Proverbs 22:24).
Friendship is the balm of life, when it is entered into with discretion, but it is a plague and a snare, when it is injudiciously contracted. Our divine teacher wishes us to be happy both in this world and the next, and extends his instructions to every thing that is connected with our happiness. He forbids us to enter into friendship with any bad man, and here he cautions us particularly against the friendship of the passionate. We must not so much as keep company with angry men, nor take a walk with them, if we can possibly avoid it.
Excerpt from “Exposition of the Book of Proverbs” by George Lawson.
