Jeremiah 9:4

Be on your guard each one against his neighbor, And trust ye not in any brother; For every brother will supplant, And every neighbor will slander.

Noyes Bible

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

3They bend their tongues, like their bows, for lies, And not by truth do they grow mighty in the earth; They proceed from wickedness to wickedness, And have no regard to me, saith Jehovah.

5They deceive every one his neighbor, And do not speak the truth; They have accustomed their tongues to speak lies; They weary themselves in doing iniquity.

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Cross References

Psalms 12:2They speak falsehood one to another; With flattering lips, with a double heart, do they speak.

Psalms 55:11Wickedness is in the midst of it; Oppression and fraud depart not from its streets.

Proverbs 4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

Proverbs 6:19A false witness, that uttereth lies, And him that soweth discord among brethren.

Proverbs 25:18A battle-hammer, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, Is the man who beareth false witness 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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