Micah 7:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Trust 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.

Micah 7:5 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 9:4
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.
Psalms 118:8-9
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. …
Matthew 10:16
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Job 6:14-15
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. …
Judges 16:5-20
And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver. …

Topics

Conceit Consistency Deceit Deception Despair Despondency Discouragement Dishonesty

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

This is such a description of bad times as, some think, could scarcely agree to the times of Hezekiah, when this prophet prophesied; and therefore they rather take it as a prediction of what should be in the reign of Manasseh. But we may rather suppose it to be in the reign of Ahaz (and in that reign he prophesied, Mic. 1:1) or in the beginning of Hezekiah’s time, before the reformation he was ins…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. Trust ye not in a friend--Faith is kept nowhere: all to a man are treacherous (Jr 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” (Mt 10:35, 36; Lu 12:53). guide--a counsellor [Calvin] able to help and advise (compare Psa 118:8, 9; 146:3). The head of your family, to whom all the members of t…