Micah 7:5

Do not believe in a friend, || Do not trust in a leader, || From her who is lying in your bosom keep the openings of your mouth.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

In Context

4Their best one [is] as a brier, || The upright one—than a thorn-hedge, || The day of your watchmen—Your visitation—has come. Now is their perplexity.

6For a son is dishonoring a father, || A daughter has stood against her mother, || A daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, || The enemies of each [are] the men of his house.

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Cross References

Judges 14:17And she weeps for it the seven days [in] which their banquet has been, and it comes to pass on the seventh day that he declares [it] to her, for she has distressed him; and she declares the riddle to the sons of her people.

Job 6:14To a despiser of his friends [is] shame, || And the fear of the Mighty he forsakes.

Psalms 118:8Better to take refuge in YHWH, || Than to trust in man,

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,

Matthew Henry on Micah 7:2-7

The Sins of the People. ( b. c. 700.) 1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape-gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first-ripe fruit. 2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his… Read the whole commentary →

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