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Verse	Translation	Text
Mic 7:5	Strong Concordance	Trust [0539] ye not in a friend [07453], put ye not confidence [0982] in a guide [0441]: keep [08104] the doors [06607] of thy mouth [06310] from her that lieth [07901] in thy bosom [02436].
	King James	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.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Trust ye not in a friend--Faith is kept nowhere: all to a man are treacherous (Jer 9:2-6). When justice is perverted by the great, faith nowhere is safe. So, in gospel times of persecution, "a man's foes are they of his own household" (Mat 10:35-36; Luk 12:53). guide--a counsellor [CALVIN] able to help and advise (compare Psa 118:8-9; Psa 146:3). The head of your family, to whom all the members of the family would naturally repair in emergencies. Similarly the Hebrew is translated in Jos 22:14 and "chief friends" in Pro 16:28 [GROTIUS]. her that lieth in thy bosom--thy wife (Deu 13:6).

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

Trust ye not in a friend--Faith is kept nowhere: all to a man are treacherous (Jer 9:2-6). When justice is perverted by the great, faith nowhere is safe. So, in gospel times of persecution, "a man's foes are they of his own household" (Mat 10:35-36; Luk 12:53).

guide--a counsellor [CALVIN] able to help and advise (compare Psa 118:8-9; Psa 146:3). The head of your family, to whom all the members of the family would naturally repair in emergencies. Similarly the Hebrew is translated in Jos 22:14 and "chief friends" in Pro 16:28 [GROTIUS].

her that lieth in thy bosom--thy wife (Deu 13:6).

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
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. "Everyone 'seeketh his own'." Times of trial and of outward harass increase this; so that God's visitations are seasons of the most frightful recklessness as to everything but sell: So had God foretold Deu 28:53; so it was in the siege of Samaria Kg2 6:28, and in that of Jerusalem both by the Chaldeans Lam 4:3-16 and by the Romans . When the soul has lost the love of God, all other is but sceming love, since "natural affection" is from Him, and it too dies out, as God gives the soul over to itself Rom 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, "the friend", or neighbor, the common band of man and man; then "the guide", (or, as the word also means, one "familiar", united by intimacy, to whom, by continual intercourse, the soul was "used";) then the wife who lay in the bosom, nearest to the secrets of the heart; then those to whom all reverence is due, "father" and "mother". 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; "Be ye wise as serpents" Mat 10:16-17, and "beware of men". Then He says, how these words should still be true Mat 10:21, Mat 10:35-36. There never were wanting pleas of earthly interest against the truth. He Himself was "cut off" lest "the Romans should take away their place and nation" Joh 11:48. The Apostles were accused, that they meant to "bring this Man's Blood upon" the chief priests Act 5:28; or as "ringleaders 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 people" Act 24:5; Act 16:20-21; Act 17:6-7, Act 17:18; Pe1 2:12; endangering not men's craft only, but the honor of their gods; "evil doers". Truth is against the world's ways, so the world is against it. Holy zeal hates sin, so sinners hate it. It troubles them, so they count it, "one which troubleth Israel" Kg1 18:17. Tertullian, in a public defense of Christians in the second century, writes, , "Truth 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." There was no lack of pleas. : "A Christian thou deemest a man guilty of every crime, an encmy of the goals, of the Emperors, of law, of morals, of all nature;" "factious," "authors of all public calamities through the anger of the pagan gods," "impious," "atheists," "disloyal," "public enemies." The Jews, in the largest sense of the word "they of their own household", were ever the deadliest enemies of Christians, the inventors of calumnies, the authors of persecutions. "What other race," says , Tertullian, "is the seed-plot of our calumnies?" 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: "So 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." - "I seek no examples, (of those of a man's own househould being his foes) they are too many, that we should have any need of witness." Dionysius: "Yet 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." So John saith, "Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God" Jo1 4:1.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

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. "Everyone 'seeketh his own'." Times of trial and of outward harass increase this; so that God's visitations are seasons of the most frightful recklessness as to everything but sell: So had God foretold Deu 28:53; so it was in the siege of Samaria Kg2 6:28, and in that of Jerusalem both by the Chaldeans Lam 4:3-16 and by the Romans . When the soul has lost the love of God, all other is but sceming love, since "natural affection" is from Him, and it too dies out, as God gives the soul over to itself Rom 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, "the friend", or neighbor, the common band of man and man; then "the guide", (or, as the word also means, one "familiar", united by intimacy, to whom, by continual intercourse, the soul was "used";) then the wife who lay in the bosom, nearest to the secrets of the heart; then those to whom all reverence is due, "father" and "mother". 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; "Be ye wise as serpents" Mat 10:16-17, and "beware of men". Then He says, how these words should still be true Mat 10:21, Mat 10:35-36. There never were wanting pleas of earthly interest against the truth.

He Himself was "cut off" lest "the Romans should take away their place and nation" Joh 11:48. The Apostles were accused, that they meant to "bring this Man's Blood upon" the chief priests Act 5:28; or as "ringleaders 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 people" Act 24:5; Act 16:20-21; Act 17:6-7, Act 17:18; Pe1 2:12; endangering not men's craft only, but the honor of their gods; "evil doers". Truth is against the world's ways, so the world is against it. Holy zeal hates sin, so sinners hate it. It troubles them, so they count it, "one which troubleth Israel" Kg1 18:17. Tertullian, in a public defense of Christians in the second century, writes, , "Truth 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."

There was no lack of pleas. : "A Christian thou deemest a man guilty of every crime, an encmy of the goals, of the Emperors, of law, of morals, of all nature;" "factious," "authors of all public calamities through the anger of the pagan gods," "impious," "atheists," "disloyal," "public enemies." The Jews, in the largest sense of the word "they of their own household", were ever the deadliest enemies of Christians, the inventors of calumnies, the authors of persecutions. "What other race," says , Tertullian, "is the seed-plot of our calumnies?"

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: "So 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." - "I seek no examples, (of those of a man's own househould being his foes) they are too many, that we should have any need of witness." Dionysius: "Yet 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." So John saith, "Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God" Jo1 4:1.

The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]
trust (See Scofield) - (Psa 2:12).

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
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.

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⁶ If thy brother [0251], the son [01121] of thy mother [0517], or thy son [01121], or thy daughter [01323], or the wife [0802] of thy bosom [02436], or thy friend [07453], which is as thine own soul [05315], entice [05496] thee secretly [05643], saying [0559], Let us go [03212] and serve [05647] other [0312] gods [0430], which thou hast not known [03045], thou, nor thy fathers [01];

²⁸ A froward [08419] man [0376] soweth [07971] strife [04066]: and a whisperer [05372] separateth [06504] chief friends [0441].

¹⁴ And with him ten [06235] princes [05387], of each [0259] [0259] chief [05387] [05387] house [01004] a prince [01] throughout all the tribes [04294] of Israel [03478]; and each one [0376] was an head [07218] of the house [01004] of their fathers [01] among the thousands [0505] of Israel [03478].

³ Put not your trust [0982] in princes [05081], nor in the son [01121] of man [0120], in whom there is no help [08668].

⁸ It is better [02896] to trust [02620] in the LORD [03068] than to put confidence [0982] in man [0120].
⁹ It is better [02896] to trust [02620] in the LORD [03068] than to put confidence [0982] in princes [05081].

⁵³ The father [3962] shall be divided [1266] against [1909] the son [5207], and [2532] the son [5207] against [1909] the father [3962]; the mother [3384] against [1909] the daughter [2364], and [2532] the daughter [2364] against [1909] the mother [3384]; the mother in law [3994] against [1909] her [846] daughter in law [3565], and [2532] the daughter in law [3565] against [1909] her [846] mother in law [3994].

³⁵ For [1063] I am come [2064] to set [1369] a man [444] at variance [1369] against [2596] his [846] father [3962], and [2532] the daughter [2364] against [2596] her [846] mother [3384], and [2532] the daughter in law [3565] against [2596] her [846] mother in law [3994].
³⁶ And [2532] a man's [444] foes [2190] shall be they of his own [846] household [3615].

² Oh that [05414] I had in the wilderness [04057] a lodging place [04411] of wayfaring men [0732]; that I might leave [05800] my people [05971], and go [03212] from them! for they be all adulterers [05003], an assembly [06116] of treacherous men [0898].
³ And they bend [01869] their tongues [03956] like their bow [07198] for lies [08267]: but they are not valiant [01396] for the truth [0530] upon the earth [0776]; for they proceed [03318] from evil [07451] to evil [07451], and they know [03045] not me, saith [05002] the LORD [03068].
⁴ Take ye heed [08104] every one [0376] of his neighbour [07453], and trust [0982] ye not in any brother [0251]: for every brother [0251] will utterly [06117] supplant [06117], and every neighbour [07453] will walk [01980] with slanders [07400].
⁵ And they will deceive [02048] every one [0376] his neighbour [07453], and will not speak [01696] the truth [0571]: they have taught [03925] their tongue [03956] to speak [01696] lies [08267], and weary [03811] themselves to commit iniquity [05753].
⁶ Thine habitation [03427] is in the midst [08432] of deceit [04820]; through deceit [04820] they refuse [03985] to know [03045] me, saith [05002] the LORD [03068].

¹ Beloved [27], believe [4100] not [3361] every [3956] spirit [4151], but [235] try [1381] the spirits [4151] whether [1487] they are [2076] of [1537] God [2316]: because [3754] many [4183] false prophets [5578] are gone out [1831] into [1519] the world [2889].

¹⁷ And it came to pass, when Ahab [0256] saw [07200] Elijah [0452], that Ahab [0256] said [0559] unto him, Art thou he that troubleth [05916] Israel [03478]?

¹² Having [2192] your [5216] conversation [391] honest [2570] among [1722] the Gentiles [1484]: that [2443], whereas [1722] [3739] they speak against [2635] you [5216] as [5613] evildoers [2555], they may [1392] by [1537] your good [2570] works [2041], which they shall behold [2029], glorify [1392] God [2316] in [1722] the day [2250] of visitation [1984].

¹⁸ Then [1161] certain [5100] philosophers [5386] of the Epicureans [1946], and [2532] of the Stoicks [4770], encountered [4820] him [846]. And [2532] some [5100] said [3004], What [5101] will [302] [2309] this [3778] babbler [4691] say [3004]? [1161] other some, He seemeth [1380] to be [1511] a setter forth [2604] of strange [3581] gods [1140]: because [3754] he preached [2097] unto them [846] Jesus [2424], and [2532] the resurrection [386].

⁶ And [1161] when they found [2147] them [846] not [3361], they drew [4951] Jason [2394] and [2532] certain [5100] brethren [80] unto [1909] the rulers of the city [4173], crying [994], [3754] These [3778] that have turned [387] the world [3625] upside down [387] are come [3918] hither [1759] also [2532];
⁷ Whom [3739] Jason [2394] hath received [5264]: and [2532] these [3778] all [3956] do [4238] contrary [561] to the decrees [1378] of Caesar [2541], saying [3004] that there is [1511] another [2087] king [935], one Jesus [2424].

²⁰ And [2532] brought [4317] them [846] to the magistrates [4755], saying [2036], These [3778] men [444], being [5225] Jews [2453], do exceedingly trouble [1613] our [2257] city [4172],
²¹ And [2532] teach [2605] customs [1485], which [3739] are [1832] not [3756] lawful [1832] for us [2254] to receive [3858], neither [3761] to observe [4160], being [5607] Romans [4514].

⁵ For [1063] we have found [2147] this [5126] man [435] a pestilent [3061] fellow, and [2532] a mover [2795] of sedition [4714] among all [3956] the Jews [2453] throughout [2596] the world [3625], and [5037] a ringleader [4414] of the sect [139] of the Nazarenes [3480]:

²⁸ Saying [3004], Did [3853] not [3756] we straitly [3852] command [3853] you [5213] that ye should [1321] not [3361] teach [1321] in [1909] this [5129] name [3686]? and [2532], behold [2400], ye have filled [4137] Jerusalem [2419] with your [5216] doctrine [1322], and [2532] intend [1014] to bring [1863] this [5127] man's [444] blood [129] upon [1909] us [2248].

⁴⁸ If [1437] we let [863] him [846] thus [3779] alone [863], all [3956] men will believe [4100] on [1519] him [846]: and [2532] the Romans [4514] shall come [2064] and [2532] take away [142] both [2532] our [2257] place [5117] and [2532] nation [1484].

²¹ And [1161] the brother [80] shall deliver up [3860] the brother [80] to [1519] death [2288], and [2532] the father [3962] the child [5043]: and [2532] the children [5043] shall rise up [1881] against [1909] their parents [1118], and [2532] cause [2289] them [846] to be put to death [2289].

¹⁶ Behold [2400], I [1473] send [649] you [5209] forth [649] as [5613] sheep [4263] in [1722] the midst [3319] of wolves [3074]: be ye [1096] therefore [3767] wise [5429] as [5613] serpents [3789], and [2532] harmless [185] as [5613] doves [4058].
¹⁷ But [1161] beware [4337] of [575] men [444]: for [1063] they will deliver [3860] you [5209] up [3860] to [1519] the councils [4892], and [2532] they will scourge [3146] you [5209] in [1722] their [846] synagogues [4864];

²⁸ And [2532] even as [2531] they did [1381] not [3756] like [1381] to retain [2192] God [2316] in [1722] their knowledge [1922], God [2316] gave [3860] them [846] over [3860] to [1519] a reprobate [96] mind [3563], to do [4160] those things which are [2520] not [3361] convenient [2520];

³ Even the sea monsters [08577] draw out [02502] the breast [07699], they give suck [03243] to their young ones [01482]: the daughter [01323] of my people [05971] is become cruel [0393], like the ostriches [03283] in the wilderness [04057].
⁴ The tongue [03956] of the sucking child [03243] cleaveth [01692] to the roof of his mouth [02441] for thirst [06772]: the young children [05768] ask [07592] bread [03899], and no man breaketh [06566] it unto them.
⁵ They that did feed [0398] delicately [04574] are desolate [08074] in the streets [02351]: they that were brought up [0539] in scarlet [08438] embrace [02263] dunghills [0830].
⁶ For the punishment of the iniquity [05771] of the daughter [01323] of my people [05971] is greater [01431] than the punishment [02403] of the sin of Sodom [05467], that was overthrown [02015] as in a moment [07281], and no hands [03027] stayed [02342] on her.
⁷ Her Nazarites [05139] were purer [02141] than snow [07950], they were whiter [06705] than milk [02461], they were more ruddy [0119] in body [06106] than rubies [06443], their polishing [01508] was of sapphire [05601]:
⁸ Their visage [08389] is blacker [02821] than a coal [07815]; they are not known [05234] in the streets [02351]: their skin [05785] cleaveth [06821] to their bones [06106]; it is withered [03001], it is become like a stick [06086].
⁹ They that be slain [02491] with the sword [02719] are better [02896] than they that be slain [02491] with hunger [07458]: for these [01992] pine away [02100], stricken [01856] through for want of the fruits [08570] of the field [07704].
¹⁰ The hands [03027] of the pitiful [07362] women [0802] have sodden [01310] their own children [03206]: they were their meat [01262] in the destruction [07667] of the daughter [01323] of my people [05971].
¹¹ The LORD [03068] hath accomplished [03615] his fury [02534]; he hath poured out [08210] his fierce [02740] anger [0639], and hath kindled [03341] a fire [0784] in Zion [06726], and it hath devoured [0398] the foundations [03247] thereof.
¹² The kings [04428] of the earth [0776], and all the inhabitants [03427] of the world [08398], would not have believed [0539] that the adversary [06862] and the enemy [0341] should have entered [0935] into the gates [08179] of Jerusalem [03389].
¹³ For the sins [02403] of her prophets [05030], and the iniquities [05771] of her priests [03548], that have shed [08210] the blood [01818] of the just [06662] in the midst [07130] of her,
¹⁴ They have wandered [05128] as blind [05787] men in the streets [02351], they have polluted [01351] themselves with blood [01818], so that men could [03201] not [03808] touch [05060] their garments [03830].
¹⁵ They cried [07121] unto them, Depart [05493] ye; it is unclean [02931]; depart [05493], depart [05493], touch [05060] not: when they fled away [05132] and wandered [05128], they said [0559] among the heathen [01471], They shall no more [03254] sojourn [01481] there.
¹⁶ The anger [06440] of the LORD [03068] hath divided [02505] them; he will no more [03254] regard [05027] them: they respected [05375] not the persons [06440] of the priests [03548], they favoured [02603] not the elders [02205].

²⁸ And the king [04428] said [0559] unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered [0559], This woman [0802] said [0559] unto me, Give [05414] thy son [01121], that we may eat [0398] him to day [03117], and we will eat [0398] my son [01121] to morrow [04279].

⁵³ And thou shalt eat [0398] the fruit [06529] of thine own body [0990], the flesh [01320] of thy sons [01121] and of thy daughters [01323], which the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] hath given [05414] thee, in the siege [04692], and in the straitness [04689], wherewith thine enemies [0341] shall distress [06693] thee:

¹² Kiss [05401] the Son [01248], lest he be angry [0599], and ye perish [06] from the way [01870], when his wrath [0639] is kindled [01197] but a little [04592]. Blessed [0835] are all they that put their trust [02620] in him.