Jeremiah 9:4

“You each beware of his friend, || And do not trust any brother, || For every brother utterly supplants, || For every friend slanderously walks,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

In Context

3“And they bend their tongue, || Their bow [is] a lie, || And they have not been mighty for steadfastness in the land, || For they have gone forth from evil to evil, || And they have not known Me,” || A declaration of YHWH!

5And they each mock at his friend, || And they do not speak truth, || They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, || They have labored to commit iniquity.

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Cross References

Genesis 32:28And He says, “Your name is no longer called Jacob, but Israel; for you have reigned with God and with men, and prevail.”

Psalms 12:2They each speak vanity with his neighbor, || Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

Psalms 55:11Mischiefs [are] in its midst. Fraud and deceit do not depart from its street.

Proverbs 4:17For they have eaten bread of wickedness, || And they drink wine of violence.

Proverbs 6:19A false witness [who] breathes out lies, || And one sending forth contentions between brothers.

Proverbs 25:18A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, || [Is] the man testifying a false testimony against his neighbor.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 9:2-12

The Prophet's Lamentation; Wickedness of Judah. ( b. c. 606.) 1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to… Read the whole commentary →

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