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Micah 7:5
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Do not rely on a friend;don’t trust in a close companion.Seal your mouthfrom the woman who lies in your arms.
Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, Be careful of the words of your mouth!
Trust yee not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keepe the doores of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome.
Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms;
Do not trust in a neighbor; Do not have confidence in a close friend. Guard your lips From her who lies in your arms.
Don't believe your neighbor or trust a friend. Don't say anything, even to your wife.
Do not trust in a neighbor [because of the moral corruption in the land]; Do not have confidence in a friend. Guard the doors of your mouth From her who lies in your bosom.
Trust ye not in a friend, neither put ye confidence in a counseller: keepe the doores of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome.
Do not trust in a neighbor; Do not have confidence in a friend. From her who lies in your bosom Guard your lips.
Do not believe in a neighbor;Do not have confidence in a close companion.From her who lies in your bosomGuard the openings of your mouth.
Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.
Don't trust anyone, not even your best friend, and be careful what you say to the one you love.
Don't trust in your neighbor; don't put confidence in a close friend; shut the gates of your mouth even from [your wife], lying there with you in bed.
Believe ye not in a companion, put not confidence in a familiar friend: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
Don't trust your neighbor or trust a friend! Don't even speak freely with your wife.
Trust not in your friends, put no confidence in your neighbors, guard the words of your mouth from your wife.
Don't believe your neighbor or trust your friend. Be careful what you say even to your husband or wife.
Do not put faith in a friend; put no trust in a close friend. Guard the doorways of your mouth from the one who lies in your lap.
Put no faith in a companion; put no trust in a friend; keep the door of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom;
Trust ye not in a neighbor; put ye not confidence in a friend; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a familiar friend; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
Let no man beleeue his friende, nor put his confidence in his brother: kepe the doore of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome.
Trust not in friends, and confide not in guides: beware of thy wife, so as not to commit anything to her.
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.
Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, Be careful of the words of your mouth!
Nyle ye bileue to a frend, and nyle ye truste in a duyk; fro hir that slepith in thi bosum, kepe thou closyngis of thi mouth.
Don't trust in a neighbor; don't put confidence in a friend; keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom.
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.
Do not rely on a friend; do not trust a companion! Don't even share secrets with the one who lies in your arms!
Do not trust in a friend; Do not put your confidence in a companion; Guard the doors of your mouth From her who lies in your bosom.
Don't trust anyone— not your best friend or even your wife!
Do not trust a neighbor. Do not put trust in a friend. Be careful what you say even with her who lies in your arms.
Put no trust in a friend, have no confidence in a loved one; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your embrace;
Do not trust in a friend, do not put confidence in an associate, - from her that lieth in thy bosom, keep thou the doors of thy mouth;
Believe not a friend, and trust not in a prince: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that sleepeth in thy bosom.
Put no trust in a neighbor, have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom;
Believe not in a friend, trust not in a leader, From her who is lying in thy bosom keep the openings of thy mouth.
Let no man beleue his frende, ner put his confidece in a prince. Kepe the porte of thy mouth, from her yt lieth in thy bosome:
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
ye not in: Job 6:14, Job 6:15, Psalms 118:8, Psalms 118:9, Jeremiah 9:4, Matthew 10:16
keep: Judges 16:5-20
Reciprocal: Genesis 29:14 - art my Genesis 29:23 - brought her Deuteronomy 13:6 - thy brother Deuteronomy 28:54 - and toward Judges 14:15 - Entice Judges 14:20 - his friend Judges 16:6 - General Judges 16:17 - all his heart 1 Samuel 14:1 - he told not 2 Samuel 9:12 - servants 2 Samuel 12:3 - lay in his 2 Samuel 15:12 - David's 2 Samuel 16:3 - where is 1 Kings 1:2 - lie Nehemiah 2:12 - neither Nehemiah 6:2 - they thought Job 19:14 - kinsfolk Psalms 38:14 - that heareth Psalms 39:1 - while Psalms 41:6 - speaketh Psalms 55:13 - my guide Psalms 69:8 - and an alien Psalms 141:3 - Set a watch Proverbs 26:25 - speaketh fair Proverbs 29:11 - General Ecclesiastes 3:7 - time to keep Jeremiah 12:6 - thy brethren Jeremiah 38:22 - have set Jeremiah 40:14 - Ishmael Lamentations 1:2 - all her friends Daniel 11:26 - that feed Amos 5:13 - the prudent Matthew 10:17 - beware Matthew 10:21 - the brother shall Matthew 10:35 - General Matthew 24:10 - betray Luke 12:52 - General Luke 21:16 - ye shall Luke 22:21 - General John 7:5 - General
Cross-References
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did they.
Thus did Moses: according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he.
Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Trust ye not in a friend,.... This is not said to lessen the value of friendship; or to discourage the cultivation of it with agreeable persons; or to dissuade from a confidence in a real friend; or in the least to weaken it, and damp the pleasure of true friendship, which is one of the great blessings of life; but to set forth the sad degeneracy of the then present age, that men, who pretended to be friends, were so universally false and faithless, that there was no dependence to be had on them:
put ye not confidence in a guide; in political matters, in civil affairs, as civil magistrates, judges, counsellors; or in domestic matters. The Targum renders it, in one near akin. Kimchi interprets it of an elder brother; and Aben Ezra of a husband, who is to his wife the guide of her youth; and in religious matters as prophets, priests who were false and deceitful. It may design a very intimate friend, a familiar acquaintance, who might of all men be thought to be confided in; of whom the word is used, Psalms 55:13;
keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom; from a wife, and much more from a concubine or harlot. The Targum is,
"from the wife of thy covenant keep the words of thy mouth;''
divulge not the thoughts of thine heart, or disclose the secrets of it, to one so near; take care of speaking treason against the prince, or ill of a neighbour; it may be got out of such an one, and who may be so base as to betray it: or utter not anything whatever that is secret, the divulging of which may be detrimental; for, in such an age as this was, one in so near a relation might be wicked enough to discover it; see Ecclesiastes 10:20.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Trust ye not in a friend - It is part of the perplexity of crooked ways, that all relationships are put out of joint. Selfishness rends each from the other, and disjoints the whole frame of society. Passions and sin break every band of friendship, kindred, gratitude, nature. âEveryone âseeketh his ownâ.â Times of trial and of outward harass increase this; so that Godâs visitations are seasons of the most frightful recklessness as to everything but sell: So had God foretold Deuteronomy 28:53; so it was in the siege of Samaria 2 Kings 6:28, and in that of Jerusalem both by the Chaldeans Lamentations 4:3-16 and by the Romans . When the soul has lost the love of God, all other is but sceming love, since ânatural affectionâ is from Him, and it too dies out, as God gives the soul over to itself Romans 1:28. The words describe partly the inward corruption, partly the outward causes which shall call it forth.
There is no real trust in any, where all are eorrupt. The outward straitness and perplexity, in which they shall be, makes that to crumble and fall to pieces, which was inwardly decayed and severed before. The words deepen, as they go on. First, âthe friendâ, or neighbor, the common band of man and man; then âthe guideâ, (or, as the word also means, one âfamiliarâ, united by intimacy, to whom, by continual intercourse, the soul was âusedâ;) then the wife who lay in the bosom, nearest to the secrets of the heart; then those to whom all reverence is due, âfatherâ and âmotherâ. Our Lord said that this should be fulfilled in the hatred of His Gospel. He begins His warning as to it, with a caution like that of the prophet; âBe ye wise as serpentsâ Matthew 10:16-17, and âbeware of menâ. Then He says, how these words should still be true Matthew 10:21, Matthew 10:35-36. There never were wanting pleas of earthly interest against the truth.
He Himself was âcut offâ lest âthe Romans should take away their place and nationâ John 11:48. The Apostles were accused, that they meant to âbring this Manâs Blood uponâ the chief priests Acts 5:28; or as âringleaders of the sect of the Nazarenes, pestilant fallows and movers of sedition, turning the world upside down, setters up of another king; troublers of the city; comanding things unlawful for Romans to practice; setters forth of strange gods; turning away much peopleâ Acts 24:5; Acts 16:20-21; Acts 17:6-7, Act 17:18; 1 Peter 2:12; endangering not menâs craft only, but the honor of their gods; âevil doersâ. Truth is against the worldâs ways, so the world is against it. Holy zeal hates sin, so sinners hate it. It troubles them, so they count it, âone which troubleth Israelâ 1 Kings 18:17. Tertullian, in a public defense of Christians in the second century, writes, , âTruth set out with being herself hated; as soon as she appeared, she is an enemy. As many as are strangers to it, so many are its foes; and the Jews indeed appropriately from their rivalry, the soldiers from their violence, even they of our own household from nature. Each flay are we beset, each day betrayed; in our very meetings and assemblies are we mostly surprised.â
There was no lack of pleas. : âA Christian thou deemest a man guilty of every crime, an encmy of the goals, of the Emperors, of law, of morals, of all nature;â âfactious,â âauthors of all public calamities through the anger of the pagan gods,â âimpious,â âatheists,â âdisloyal,â âpublic enemies.â The Jews, in the largest sense of the word âthey of their own householdâ, were ever the deadliest enemies of Christians, the inventors of calumnies, the authors of persecutions. âWhat other race,â says , Tertullian, âis the seed-plot of our calumnies?â
Then the Acts of the Martyrs tell, how Christians were betrayed by near kinsfolk for private interest, or for revenge, because they would not join in things unlawful. Jerome: âSo many are the instances in daily life, (of the daughter rising against the mother) that we should rather mourn that they are so many, than seek them out.â - âI seek no examples, (of those of a manâs own househould being his foes) they are too many, that we should have any need of witness.â Dionysius: âYet ought we not, on account of these and like words of Holy Scripture, to be mistrustful or suspicious, or always to presume the worst, but to be cautious and prudent. For Holy Scripture speaketh with reference to times, causes, persons, places.â So John saith, âBelieve not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of Godâ 1 John 4:1.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Micah 7:5. Trust ye not in a friend — These times will be so evil, and the people so wicked, that all bonds will be dissolved; and even the most intimate will betray each other, when they can hope to serve themselves by it.
On this passage, in the year 1798, I find I have written as follows: -
"Trust ye not in a friend. - Several of those whom I have delighted to call by that name have deceived me.
"Put ye not confidence in a guide. - Had I followed some of these I should have gone to perdition.
"Keep the door of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. - My wife alone never deceived me."
It is now twenty-seven years since, and I find no cause to alter what I then wrote.
