Jeremiah 9:4

Beware you⌃ each of his neighbor, and trust you⌃ not in your brethren: for every one will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.

LXX2012 (US English)

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

3And they have bent their tongue like a bow: falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known me, says the Lord.

5Every one will mock his friend; they will not speak truth: their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.

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Cross References

Genesis 32:28And he said to him, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name; for you have prevailed with God, and shall be mighty with men.

Psalms 12:2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrows in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me? 1

Psalms 55:11I have hoped in God; I will not be afraid of what man shall do to me. 1

Proverbs 4:17For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with wine of transgression.

Proverbs 6:19An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and + 6:19 Gr sends forth judgments. brings on quarrels between brethren.

Proverbs 25:18As a club, and a dagger, and a pointed arrow, so also is a man who bears false witness against his friend.

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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