4Take 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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. …
He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; …
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. …
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)The prophet, being commissioned both to foretel the destruction coming upon Judah and Jerusalem and to point out the sin for which that destruction was brought upon them, here, as elsewhere, speaks of both very feelingly: what he said of both came from the heart, and therefore one would have thought it would reach to the heart. I. He abandons himself to sorrow in consideration of the calamitous co…
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