Verse 24
2.
"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." This is a stern warning against association with any man given to angry and wrathful outbursts. Christians are commanded to be `slow to anger' and "to be angry and sin not.' Anger breeds anger; impatience breeds impatience; and association with such a man is dangerous, not only in the earthly sense, but also in the eternal sense. It can lead to the loss of one's soul.
3.
"Be thou not one of them that strike hands, Or of them that are sureties for debts. If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?"
A number of the proverbs of Solomon in the previous section dealt with this same problem, and there is nothing new added here. It just says, "Don't do it"!
4.
"Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers have set."
Moving an ancient landmark was a device of fraudulent men, because such landmarks defined the boundaries of farms and estates. Moving a landmark was a crime easy to commit and hard to prove, therefore God gave the sternest warnings against it, not only in the books of Law and Prophecy, but in the Wisdom literature also."[22]
5.
"Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; He shall not stand before mean men."
"Diligence would not commend a man so highly unless it was accompanied by unusual skill, dexterity, ingenuity and creativeness."[23] In ancient times persons with such abilities were called "tektons." The word was applied to Christ himself (as a carpenter) (Mark 6:3). Such skilled workers are the benefactors of all mankind. We dedicated our Book of Acts (In the New Testament Series) to a "[@tekton]." Bezalel (Exodus 35:30-35) was just such a person.
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