Micah 7:5

Do not trust in a neighbor.Do not put confidence in a friend.With the woman lying in your embrace,be careful of the words of your mouth!

New Heart English Bible

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

4The best of them is like a brier.The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge.The day of your watchmen,even your visitation, has come;now is the time of their confusion.

6For the son dishonors the father,the daughter rises up against her mother,the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

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Cross References

Judges 14:17She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him sore; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

Job 6:14"To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend;even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Psalms 118:8It is better to take refuge in the Lord,than to put confidence in man.

Jeremiah 9:4"Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and do not trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

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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